Sweden’s Home Baking Council started celebrating “Cinnamon Bun Day” — known there as kanelbullens dag — on Oct. 4, 1999, as a way to honor household traditions.

It soon became an annual event.

Officials in Scandia, the north Washington County city founded by Swedish immigrants, began marking the special day in 2018 by passing out free cinnamon buns in downtown Scandia.

They’ll be at it again on Friday and plan to distribute 900 homemade buns, up from 600 a year ago.

“We ran out last year, and we’re determined not to run short this year,” said Patti Ray, who is helping to organize the event.

About 700 of the buns will be distributed from 6 to 9 a.m. at Olinda Trail and Oakhill Road; another 200 will be distributed at Gammelgården Museum from from 9:30 a.m. “until the buns run out,” Ray

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