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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Selling icy desserts offers life lessons to some, life raft to others

Antonia Rueda prepares a snowball outside Neveria La Poblanita in Marquette Park. The 60-year-old grandmother began selling the summer treat as a way to get her four grandkids involved in the family business. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Antonia Rueda waits for the days her grandkids visit to open the snowball stand in front of her Marquette Park eatery, Neveria La Poblanita. Inside she sells Mexican food, but if the snowball stand is what gets the four kids involved, she’s happy.

“I teach them to do it that way they can learn to rely on themselves. They never have to ask someone for money. They never have to come to me for money,” said the 60-year-old grandmother from Puebla, Mexico.

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