To celebrate the first day of spring, Rita’s is offering customers a free Italian ice on Saturday, March 20.
This is the 18th year the chain has offered free Italian ice the first day of spring. The offer is good from noon to 10 p.m. for a 10-ounce regular-size ice.
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Teresa Mears is a publisher, writer and editor who was raised to be frugal. She was downsized last summer after nearly 30 years as an editor at newspapers ranging in size from the Portland (Tenn.) Leader to The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, where she worked most recently. She moved to Florida in 1980 because it was the only place she could get a job during that recession and has lived in South Florida since 1985, in Miami, Hollywood and Fort Pierce. She also has lived on Florida’s Gulf Coast, in St. Petersburg and Inverness.