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Heidi Castillo and Ole Hongvanthong have been entrepreneurs for the better part of a decade, and along the way have helped countless small business owners not only start, but maintain and grow their clientele. Now, Heidi and Ole have their eyes set on expanding their own business ventures, and have ventured into the cold world of ice cream. Mezcla, Which is a hand crafted Mexican inspired ice cream shop located in Lancaster city, is the name of their newest venture.

Castillo says, “This ice cream is made by a couple Puerto Rican and Mexican American, and they’ve been making ice cream for over 20 years. So it’s a homemade style ice cream. You know, the ice cream traditionally has less fat and more air. So people say that it kind of like tastes like gelato, But I guess that’s like the closest thing that you could compare it to. I grew up in California, in Anaheim. And it’s very, culturally diverse. And there’s a variety of foods. And being in Lancaster, I miss having that variety. And I always have to travel to other cities, bigger cities, to get the things that, I like. So for people like me, we always have to, like, travel somewhere else. And so I kind of wanted to just bring that to Lancaster because there’s a lot of people like me in Lancaster who don’t have that food necessarily, ice cream being one of them, because, you know, different flavors. So I wanted to bring that here.”