Ben & Jerry’s celebrate its 30th annual Free Cone Day today with free scoops of all its favorites — Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia and Chubby Hubby — as well as some of its newest offerings like Fair Trade Chocolate & Vanilla Ice Creams Swirled Together with Fudge-Covered Macadamia Nuts and Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road, and Triple Caramel Chunk. Participating local stores: Ben & Jerry's St. Petersburg, 189 Second Ave., Space 104, St. Petersburg, 727-822-2653; USF Tampa, 4204 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, 913-974-1185; and USF Student Union, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., MSC 1100D, Tampa, 813-974-4266. Call each individual store for hours.
Florida Holocaust Museum hosts Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance, which includes a presentation of the Righteous Among the Nations award by the Israeli Consulate to the Nauta Family. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance of Israel organization, presents the award to those who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust. Rabbi Danielle Upbin leads the service and students from Pinellas County Jewish Day School sing. 6:30 p.m., Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, free, flholocaustmuseum.org.
This article appears in Apr 15-21, 2009.