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Article: Shave-ice stand becomes a favorite

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November 12, 2008
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When Jenny Martin moved here from California in 1997, she was exhausted. She'd been running a large dairy in San Bernardino and was hoping for a quiet life in Hawaii, so she had her eye out for a small business to run, something with low startup costs. Someone suggested a shave-ice stand.

"I didn't know what that was then," she recalls with a chuckle. "I only knew snow cone."

Martin's future husband took her around the island to teach her about quality shave ice, and when she was educated, she invested $1,600 to purchase a stand. With her own personal touches, Martin turned the stand into a lucrative venture that has become anything but quiet.

It seems that try as she might, Martin -- who ...

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