P.B.S's television show "This Old House" may have some competition.
"This Old Bakery" has come to town.
Dave Anderson tells us which bakery got fixed up and who footed the bill.
Scott Johnson and his sister Sharon Torrison run the Johnson Bakery in Duluth.
The place has been around a long time.
"We've been around since 1946. My parents started it with my father's mother."
Part of the bakery's longevity comes from those family roots.
"My grandmother had recipes for sugar cookies and cake donuts and we still use those recipes."
After 62 years, those sugar cookies and cake donuts are still fresh but the bakery itself was getting long in the sweet tooth.
That's when Scott noticed General Mills was holding a bakery make-over contest.
"What chance would we have being a little bakery in Duluth accomplishing something like this...so I put it on the back burner."
Recently, that back burner boiled over when Johnson's won the contest.
They received $5,000 from General Mills and a work crew from Pillsbury to spruce up the bakery.
Johnson's Bakery ended up with new lights and flooring plus fresh paint on the walls and ceilings.
Painting the antique tin ceiling took eighteen hours.
"It definitely was a lot of work for sure. I got a great shoulder work out doing it over a weekend."
Scott Johnson says today's economic conditions make it hard for neighborhood and small town bakeries to survive.
He hopes this bakery make over helps his store go for at least another 62 years.
"If you haven't been here for a while, stop by and see us again and check us out. The coffee pot's always on!"
In Duluth, Dave Anderson, the Northland's News Center.
Several other small bakeries around the country won similar prizes from General Mills and Pillsbury.
Those companies feel the survival of small businesses like the Johnson's is important.
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