UDF Tour
Monday, May 15 9:30 AM SHARP!!

Shanda wrote: Here are the final details about our UDF tour:

We will be meeting in the 2nd floor lobby by 9:30 AM. Please be prompt as the tour will start on time. This is the reception area, so we need to stay as quiet as possible while in this area. Everyone should bring a jacket, as the tour will include a short trip to the freezer at temperatures as low as 25 degrees below zero. Due to possible wet tile floors, we all MUST wear gym shoes. Tobacco and glass containers of any kind are strictly prohibited. All of us will be required to wear hair nets. Shirts must be tucked in at all times. Slacks are strongly recommended instead of skirts/dresses.

Some of the machinery and equipment is very sensitive. During certain portions of the tour we will be quite close to moving machinery and conveyors; therefore, the utmost caution and restraint must be taken by all to ensure a safe and enjoyable tour.

Here are some additional safety tips I received to pass along:
Be careful. Floors can be wet due to dripping or frozen ice cream!
Watch where you are going. Our motorized trucks are busy in the plant mooving milk!
Our freezers are full of VERY COLD ice cream. Do not enter if health conditions prohibit being in extremely cold conditions!
There are some steps where we make our ice cream. Keep one hand on the railing.
There is NO parking lot for tour participants, but there is adequate on-street parking.

When I did this tour a few years ago, we were served ice cream at the end of the tour Our guide will also be happy to answer any additional questions we have while we're enjoying our ice cream.

If you are not able to make the tour for any reason, please let me know as far in advance as possible. I do have a few people on a waiting list. I can be reached via email at smith1234@juno.com or at (513) 753-0010. I will have my cell phone with me the day of the tour in case you need to contact me. That number is (513) 305-2011.

Have a great week!!
Shanda

Monday, May 15th - Kerri Lamb (3), Kathleen Hardy (2), Denise Kappel (3), Rosemary Andrew (2), Tina Anderson (2), Lisa Starr (2), Laura Riesenberg (7), Sara Raub (3); still space for 1 more

Directions according to my confirmation letter:
3955 Montgomery Road
Norwood, OH 45212

Coming from the North or South on 75
Take 75 to the Norwood Lateral (SR 562).
Take the Norwood Lateral to the Montgomery Road exit.
Turn LEFT at the first stop sign.
Turn LEFT at the next stop sign also.
Proceed to the traffic light and turn LEFT. This is Montgomery Road.
Follow Montgomery Road to the 7th traffic light.
UDF is adjacent to this light on the RIGHT.

Coming from the South on 71
Take 71 North to the Smith/Edwards Road exit.
Turn LEFT off the ramp.
Proceed to the 1st traffic light and turn LEFT. This is Williams Avenue.
Take Williams Avenue through to the 2nd traffic light. This is Montgomery Road. (UDF plant will be in front of you.
Turn LEFT on to Montgomery Road.

Coming from the North on 71
Take 71 South to the Norwood Lateral (SR 562).
Take the Norwood Lateral to the Montgomery Road exit.
Turn LEFT off the exit. This is Norwood Avenue.
Proceed to the traffic light and turn LEFT. This is Montgomery Road.
Follow Montgomery Road to the 7th traffic light.
UDF is adjacent to this light on the RIGHT.

Coming from the East on 275
Take 275 North to 71 South.
From here, follow the directions for "Coming from the North on 71".
Coming from the West on 74
Take 74 East to 75 North to the Norwood Lateral (SR 562).
Take this to Montgomery Road exit.
From here, follow the directions for "Coming from the North or South".

I had seen this tour "advertised" in the KIDS LOVE OHIO book and was excited when the info about an upcoming tour came through on our local homeschooling list. It was a bit of a pain that there are FIRM on the 1st grade and up rule, so Sophie and Will had to stay home with Jay.

We met in the reception area of the building. We were all given LOVELY paper hairnets to wear, quite the fashion statement. Have to say that I was glad to be the one taking pictures (I will post them later!). The tour started out in the VAT room where they pasturize the milk. We then headed down to see the raw milk storage tanks and were AMAZED at their size and how much milk the factory handles each day. We saw the receiving area for the milk and then saw them make bottles and the process of bottling orange drink (the drink they were producing today), then it was on to the icecream processing area. Today they were running Vanilla icecream. Then she took us into the freezer area.....it started out at a balmy 32 degrees, then we walked into the second area which was zero degrees, and then into the last area which was a cool 32 degrees BELOW ZERO! Needless to say a couple of minutes in there and we were all chattering to get out! We were then taken to a break room where we were all treated to ICECREAM fresh off the line....it was SO YUMMY! If I could I would never eat icecream from the store again, it is so much better fresh off the line.

I highly recommend the tour to anyone with kids over the reqired 6 years old! It was great fun for a FREE tour!