It s Martinsville Soapworks busiest season and owner Heather Kalisiak is working furiously to make enough lotions, candles and lip balms to fill the North Tonawanda store s shelves.
Her holiday products are usually well-stocked by now but, when Covid-19 hit her family last month, she got behind. I lost all of November, she said.
That s because Kalisiak developed Covid-19 last month and had to close her store for a month. Kalisiak s daughter, Talia, who runs a gift shop down the street, also came down with a more severe case of Covid-19 and remains hospitalized at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. Her shop, the Delightful Octopus, was shuttered even longer.