Sisters Bakery changes hands

After 22 years of providing Sisters with delectable baked goods, Melissa Ward is turning over Sisters Bakery to new owners. Handing off the baton for an iconic business is not something to be taken lightly.

"The right people came through the door," Ward said.

Jeff, Stephanie, Andrew and Michaela Bourgerie, late of Wisconsin and Indiana, are those "right people," and they took the baton and ran with it starting last week, after working with Ward on a transition.

Melissa sat in her bakery last Friday thumbing through photo albums with artist Paul Bennett, reminiscing about two decades in business in Sisters. The album revealed photographs of a remodel of the historic building - and most of all, it told a story of families growing up around the business.

Children in photographs from a 1995 Halloween parade now have kids of their own.

"You watched the kids grow up here. That's one of the gifts of having a business in a small town," Ward reflected. "You're involved with people all the way through."

Ward says she plans to travel and see her own kids a little bit more, and she plans to devote time to her writing, a lifelong passion.

She is confident that she has left her beloved bakery in good hands - which will take the business on into the future.

"It takes a dauntless person to have a small business," she said.

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Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.

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