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Baba Jenny’s ready to Welcome Ukrainian Refugees with Open Arms specialties like nalystheir lives. The counnyky, perishke, and tries around Ukraine pompushky.” have opened their Toews is proud to arms, but they are say that all of the overf lowing with ingredients are sourced refugees. With an locally, and no preseruncertain future for vatives or additives are so many Ukrainians, used at the facility. All we are grateful that of the products are Canada is also openfrozen and packaged ing its borders to and can be found in refugees and implemany grocery stores menting faster throughout western entrances to Canada Employee Kelly Ludwig. Canada. as well as open work (Michelle Pinon/Photo) On March 1 Baba permits. Jenny’s put the call out on the company’s This war is a terrible situation, and we Facebook page asking people in the com- feel the least we can do is open our community if they have appropriate housing munity and company to support as many to accommodate refugees to contact refugees as we can and encourage other them. Toews said the response has been communities and companies to do the great. same. “We’re so grateful for all the support Not only can we help them find their our community has shown us in our ini- way in a new country, but they will be a tiative. We’ve had several offers for hous- huge asset to us. Ukrainians are a harding options right in Mannville at good working, determined people and could rates, as well as offers to help supply benefit many Albertan employers with clothing and other essentials once the their work ethics. refugees start arriving. People have The aftermath of Covid has left employoffered us monetary donations. And some ers struggling to find employees willing to as far as Calgary have offered to send out essentials so we’re just waiting to see how quickly we can get the first refugees in.” She went on to say, “The invasion of Ukraine and the bombing that has followed has been devastating to watch. Millions have fled Ukraine, many of them women who may have nothing left to return to. Together with Carolyn, many others in our company and community have Ukrainian heritage. It hits close to home when people you know are fleeing for
Michelle Pinon News Advertiser A humanitarian crisis of global proportions has prompted owners of a Mannville based company to offer employment and accommodation for up to 15 Ukrainian refugees over the next year. Baba Jenny’s Ukrainian Foods production facility in Mannville has been operating in the community since 2019. The tried and true original recipes are known far and wide, just like Jenny Borysiuk, who was born in Mannville to Ukrainian immigrants. When she first went to school she spoke only Ukrainian and was bullied for her heritage. Full circle to running her own catering company for 30 plus years. She is still remembered as being one the best caterers the community has ever had. Garry & Carolyn Pulyk, together with Baba Jenny started their company just over 10 years ago. They hired four local Babas to help roll cabbage rolls and another girl to help with some of the specialty products in their little 5,000 square foot facility in Vermilion. In the summer of 2019, they relocated to a new facility in Mannville where they had added on to the cabbage roll division and increased the building’s square footage to 14,000. Human Resources Manager Katie Toews said the company now employs 40 plus women year round. “On an average day we will churn out around 18,000 pierogi using up to 1,200 lbs of potatoes that are individually handled to ensure quality. We usually make around 11,000 cabbage rolls each day. We make a total of 10 different products on a regular basis including four flavours of pierogi, borscht, and cabbage rolls, as well as
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