A taste of Tyndall

Sheri Poore
Jan 3, 2023
Jan 3, 2023

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Keegan Baker, a senior at Scotland (South Dakota) High School, frosts doughnuts in the back room of the bakery. This is Keegan’s third year of working at Tyndall Bakery. Carol Radack says she and her husband Ed have employed 60 or 70 youth in 15 years of owning the bakeshop.

Tri-State Neighbor photo by Sheri Poore

Taylor VanPelt, left, of Tripp, South Dakota, has worked at Tyndall Bakery for four and a half years. A senior at Wayne State College in Nebraska, she takes shifts at the bakery during her holiday breaks. Keegan Baker, center, is in her third year of working at the bakery. She is a senior at Scotland, South Dakota, High School. Before taking over the shop 15 years ago, Ed Radack, right, worked for the South Dakota Department of Transportation.

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Useful relics.jpg — Carol and Ed Radack’s bakery kitchen is filled with relics of the shop’s history, including a wooden bread paddle and still-useful cooling racks from 1909.
Tri-State Neighbor photos by Sheri Poore

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Fresh bread lines the shelves at Tyndall Bakery.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Sheri Poore

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Malena Frank.jpg — Malena Frank, who grew up at Avon, South Dakota, has been shopping at Tyndall Bakery since she was 4. She bought a pumpkin roll on a recent Saturday morning with her daughters Madison, left, and Amber, right.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Sheri Poore

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Judy Rueb.jpg — Judy Rueb, left, said she never tired of the aroma even after 37 years at Tyndall Bakery. “I wish I could do it again,” she said on a recent Saturday as she stopped in to visit with owner Carol Radack.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Sheri Poore

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Sheri Poore grew up on a Day County dairy farm and is a former Tri-State Neighbor editor now living in Sioux Falls.