For well over a century the Saunders Bakery building on Main Street has been an institution in this village.
The iconic building, inhabited by bakers since the 1840s, has survived two World Wars, the depression, numerous recessions and all sorts of weather – and now, a car crash can be added to the list.
On the morning of July 11, an SUV carrying its female driver and two children, smashed into an enclosed porch at the side of the building.
“We had someone that was trying to make it a drive through,” owner Paul Holman joked in an interview later that day.
He was working in the front portion of the building with a staff member when he heard glass shattering from the back of the bakery.
Holman originally thought a bread rack had fallen into a nearby piece of furniture and was shocked to see the front of a vehicle inside the side entrance. Luckily, no one was in that area of the building at the time.
“Everyone’s fine … we’re fortunate,” Holman told the Advertiser, adding the three people in the vehicle also appeared to be unharmed.
Police attended the scene, he said, and though the porch has been “wiped out,” it appears there was “no disturbance” to the main building and the business remained open.
“It seems everything is fine but the porch,” he said, adding the bakery’s insurance company will also be looking at the building.
