For Valentine’s Day this year, the owner of Dora’s Donuts will be showing up in her sprinkle headband and donut shirt to deliver boxes of freshly baked donuts, Dough Notes, and hope.
The Dough Notes are small edible messages. Signature phrases include Do Not Worry or Good Things Are Coming Your Way, but for Valentine’s Day, owner Heather Dora Piotter said she’ll be creating custom notes and conversation heart messages, too.
“I’m trying to add a little positivity. That stems back to my late husband,” owner Heather Dora Piotter said. “He was really happy go lucky. He could make friends with a brick wall. So, when he passed I was like, ‘You don’t get to take all of that with you.’ People are already happy to get hot fresh donuts and so to add a little extra positivity and something a little funny just felt like part of us.”
Piotter’s husband was named Jeffery, but he went by “JJ.”…