Get ready for a delicious Friday evening!
The 36th annual Wesley Village Ice Cream Social, a longtime summer tradition, will be held from 6-8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 7, on the lawn and community center at Macomb's Wesley Village.
Tickets, $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under, are available at the Wesley Village office (1200 E. Grant St.). Walk-ins are also welcome at the event. Admission includes ice cream, pie, cookies, tea and water, and activities and games for all ages, including the King Graffiti Band, live 'unicorns,' a Human Slot Machine, giant Plinko, Sparky the Firehouse Dog and a Macomb Fire Department truck for littles to check out and a bounce house. Youngsters can also learn how to pass, kick and make the perfect goal with members of the Macomb High School football and soccer teams.
'We are so excited to celebrate again this year,' said Lisa Ward, Wesley's director of development. 'Our ice cream social is about fellowship and community. It is such a wonderful evening, and our residents love seeing everyone come out to support them. And let's not forget the incredible talent of 25 residents, members of the greatest baking generation, who are helping make delicious pies for our annual pie auction at Friday's event!'
Indoor seating will be available for participants to enjoy their ice cream and food, and to take a break from the heat. Plenty of seating is available outdoors as well, Ward added, and there will music to groove to with King Graffiti. All proceeds go to the Wesley Foundation.
'This is our major fundraiser of the year, and we greatly appreciate the support and generosity that so many give to the Wesley Foundation,” Ward added. “This is an event we all look forward to each year.”
The 2026 event's Event Sponsor is Fink Family Farms include 5 Scoop Sponsors Edward Jones-Seth Minter, Wear Drug, First Mid Insurance, West Side Lumber, Savemore Carpets- Macomb and Quincy and McMillan, Hennefent and DeJoode, PC; 4 Scoop Sponsors Community News Brief, HCDS Office Technology, The Old Dairy, Park Place and Sports Corner, H. Leroy Brown Farms, Kieffer Built Construction and the Ray Bunch Family. Other sponsors include 3 Scoop: Stoney Branch, MTC Communications, Diggers College City Bowl, Jimmy Johns, More Medical, Morton Community Bank and Farm King; 2 Scoop: Mid-America National Bank, McDonough District Hospital, Vision Consultants, Clugston-Tibbitts, State Bank of Industry, Century 21 Steve Silberer and Jennifer Robinson - American Family Insurance; and Full Scoop: Macomb Rotary, Boy Scouts of America Troop 332, Macomb High FFA, Macomb High School Athletics, Lowderman Auction, Kohls Distributors, Sysco, WGEM, Refreshment Pepsi Services, Gordon Food and KHQA.
Volunteers stand ready to scoop ice cream and give out other goodies at last year's Wesley Village Ice Cream Social.
