Bayview baker Yvonne Hines was on the East Coast, dropping off her daughter at Brown University to pursue a Master’s Degree, when she received the news that someone had shattered the window of Yvonne’s Southern Sweets, her storefront at 5128 Third St.
“I felt violated and hurt,” said Hines, 61. “I’m just a little bakery, 400 square feet. The only thing that was in there was sugar, flour and butter.”
Hines first started selling baked goods like 7-Up cake, peach cobbler, and butter pecan cookies, from her home in 2003, to help cover the cost of childcare for her newborn daughter. Reviews were enthusiastic and, three years later, Hines opened up on Third Street…