Celebrate the first day of spring with ice cream while also helping kids hospitlized at Beaumont Children's Hospital.

Visit the West Bloomfield area's two Dairy Queen locations today and receive a free soft serve ice cream cone as part of a fundraiser for the hospital.

More than 50 participating southeast Michigan Dairy Queen locations are giving away free soft-serve ice cream cones from 11 a.m.-10 p.m., in exchange for a donation to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The promotion raises funds for services and equipment to benefit hospitalized children at Beaumont Children's Hospital.

“Last year, nearly 30,000 free cones were served and more than $20,000 was raised on Free Cone Day,” said Matt Romkey, associate director Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals at Beaumont Children’s Hospital, in a recent release. “All of the money raised at DQ on Free Cone Day stays local and provides life-saving care for more than 100,000 sick and injured children treated at Beaumont Children’s Hospital each year.”

Since 1988, Dairy Queen has committed more than $250,000 to CMN Hospitals at Beaumont Children’s Hospital.

You can find West Bloomfield-area Dairy Queens at:

• 7425 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield
• 2886 Orchard Lake Rd., Keego Harbor