AUGUSTA – Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx, D-Brunswick, welcomed owner Becky Shepherd, manager Louisa Edgerton and a friend of the bakery, Finn Woodruff, from Wild Oats Bakery and Café in Brunswick, to the State House in May to receive a special legislative sentiment and recognition from the Maine House of Representatives.

Wild Oats Bakery and Cafe, in the Tontine Mall in downtown Brunswick, has been recognized as a 2009 Editors’ Choice in “Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England.” The Editors’ Choice recommendations designate “Yankee” editors’ and writers’ favorite attractions across New England. Wild Oats Bakery and Cafe was selected as the Best Taste of Home of 2009. The sentiment read in part, “We extend our congratulations to everyone involved in the success of this bakery, cafe and deli on its receiving this regional honor, and we send our best wishes for its future success.”

From left to right, Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Cumberland, Rep. Charlie Priest, D-Brunswick, Wild Oats Bakery and Café owner, Becky Shepherd, manager Louisa Edgerton, Finn Woodruff, and Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx, D-Brunswick, with Special Legislative Sentiment recognizing the bakery for having been named “Yankee Magazine Editors’ Choice Best Taste of Home.”