Longtime Sauk Rapids teacher is new owner of Minnesota ice cream shop
ST. CLOUD LIVE — When Kelsey Bean started selling candy and ice cream at The Chocolate Ox in downtown Nisswa as a high school sophomore, she had no idea that it would one day become her career. “This was technically my first job I ever had,” Bean said on a nice summer morning while sitting on the patio outside the popular store she now owns at age 35.
After graduating from Brainerd High School in 2006, Bean earned a teaching degree from St. Cloud State University four years later. She was an elementary school teacher for 15 years with the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District.