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27 February, 2025
Family donut tradition comes to an end
After cooking and selling millions of hot jam donuts, on and off, over the last 22 years, the ‘donut lady’ is hanging her apron up.
After cooking and selling millions of hot jam donuts, on and off, over the last 22 years, the ‘donut lady’ is hanging her apron up.
Lynda Jorgenson aka ‘the Donut Lady’ has sold her popular donut van to another local food family.
Lynda set up her specialist donut van in the Wimmera in 2002, because it allowed her to work and raise a young family, many years ago, but it wasn’t a new industry to her.
During that time her sister also operated the van as well.
Her family operated hot donut vans in Melbourne, under the name ‘Golden Donuts’, as a young child and certainly learned the trade ‘hands on’ from a tender age.
So it was a natural progression for her to take the business to the Wimmera.
"It was a right of passage for us kids when we helped out in the donut van in Melbourne,” Lynda said.
“Hot jam donuts were our ‘bread and butter’ so to speak, I’ll certainly miss the friendships I’ve built up with customers over the years."
Lynda spent her last day at the Warracknabeal Market last Saturday helping the new owner Wenda Billman and her family learn the trade.
Wenda is not new to the catering industry either, as she and her family own and operate ‘The Lazy Lizard’ cafe in Murtoa and has involved her son Jai in the business.