It’s a sunny day in Glenwood Park, people are walking their dogs, chatting amongst themselves, and as you walk across from 424 Bill Kennedy Way, next to PINK Sky Boutique, you smell the sweet scent of fresh-baked goods and ice cream.

This sweet aroma comes from Westside Creamery’s Sweet Spot, owned by Debra and Llew Eastern, a husband-and-wife duo. Debra fell in love with baking at the age of eight in her hometown of Milwaukee.

On Saturday mornings, an elderly wheelchair-bound landlady who lived downstairs from Debra would direct her on how to bake homemade peanut butter cookies from the wheelchair. A year or so later, the woman became ill and gifted Debra the cookie recipe book from which she would bake her cookies.

“She insisted that I cherish the book because it had been handed down

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