Lineups long at Regina doughnut shop after racist graffiti and vandalism
Global News
Country Corner Donuts has been serving up soup, sandwiches and some of Regina's favourite doughnuts for more than 30 years. The store was the target of racist graffiti.
It isn’t taking long for the shelves at Country Corner Donuts to empty these days.
Boston creams, Bavarian chocolates, walnut crullers and all 36 of the landmark Regina coffeshop’s doughnut varieties are barely making it out of the oven in the morning before they’re boxed up and out the door.
While owner Vuong Pham says he will sell out on an average day, he adds the rush of support in recent days is unprecedented and began after his store windows were targeted with racist graffiti and vandalism.
Pham says the first of the recent string of incidents happened a few months ago when one of the shop’s south-facing windows was shot at with a BB gun.
He says about three weeks ago a large rock was thrown through a different window facing Broad Street.
Then, last Monday, he showed up to work in the morning to see three windows covered in racist graffiti, the hateful messages reading “f- you China”, “go back to China” and “eat rice”.
Pham says the while the racism was overwhelming, support from the local community has been even stronger in the response.
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