For the second year, Jesse Gunn, owner of Blue Ribbon Bakery, has organized her business neighbors to offer Trick-or-Treating in the shopping complex at 702 East Ohio.
Trick-or-Treating hours are 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Halloween, Oct. 31, which this year falls on a Tuesday.
Last year, a couple of hundred kids showed up, Jesse said. Not all the businesses participate, but this year, so far, she has signed up eight businesses.
“We give out candy,” she said.
Jesse took over the bakery, a Clinton staple, in June of 2022 from Becky Church, who owned it for 14 years. The bakery has been at the same location since the shopping center on Ohio Street opened in 1981. Jesse is a 2009 graduate of Windsor High School, but wears Cardinal red and supports local schools.
The Bakery has undergone a change of color, also, she said. Following the previous owner’s tradition, Blue Ribbon Bakery closed for two weeks last Christmas, and the interior was given a new coat of paint. The menu, formerly on chalkboards, is now painted on the wall — cinnamon rolls, turnovers, fritters, biscuits and gravy, breakfast sandwiches, along with cookies and deli sandwiches, eat in or take-out. The Bakery also does custom birthday and wedding cakes and cupcakes.
Blue Ribbon is the place to be in the mornings if you want to rub elbows with the locals, read the weekly issue of the Clinton Daily Democrat, or discuss crop prices and weather forecasts over coffee.
Bakery hours are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday by appointment.
