As pandemic takes bite of Paczki sales, beer store offers boozy take on tradition
Paczki Day is usually the busiest day for Blak s Bakery in Windsor, serving its highly anticipated signature doughnut, but the pandemic took a bite out of some of its sales this year.
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Author of the article: Dave Waddell • Windsor Star
Publishing date: Feb 15, 2021 • February 16, 2021 • 2 minute read • Preparing for a tasty Fat Tuesday. Julie Gill, left, and her mother, Valarie Blak-Gill, of Blak s Bakery in Windsor and shown Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, know a thing or two about paczkis having grown up in the family business which dates back to 1918 and spans four generations. Photo by Nick Brancaccio /Windsor Star
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For Blak’s Bakery owner Valerie Blak-Gill, Paczki Day on the eve of Ash Wednesday isn’t business it’s personal.
Every year, dozens of relatives descend on the family-owned city bakery now in it’s 103rd year to help push out tens of thousands of the tasty treats before the start of Lent, but COVID-19 will sap some of the joy out of this year’s Paczki Day.