CLEVELAND – When the going gets tough, the tough pull out their rolling pins. The specter of coronavirus may have extinguished this year’s Ukrainian Independence Day festivities in Cleveland, but it could not squelch the spirit of two industrious Ukrainian teens, Sofia Kosmos Zunt and Kalyna Kulchytsky, who found an innovative way to commemorate the holiday.
As a project for Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, the girls baked 100 cookies from scratch and decorated each with blue and yellow frosting to resemble the Ukrainian flag and the tryzub. Over the next couple of days, Sofia and Kalyna dressed in Plast uniforms and, in partnership with their mothers, delivered cookies to the mailboxes of about 50 senior registered members of the Plast scouting community who live in various suburbs of Cleveland.