Traditional pastry marks beginning of Lent
Eric Dahl of Gary walked into Beck’s Crown Bakery of Crown Point Tuesday morning asking if they bakery “had those paczki things.” The Gary resident works at the Southlake YMCA and saw a commercial for paczki. It’s a treat he recalled he would enjoy when he worked in Calumet City. Since he retired a few years ago, he hadn’t given the treats much thought — until that commercial. “I asked a ...