Les Anderson is a professor in the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University. This is his second year of bringing journalism students to Greensburg to tell the story of its rebirth.
Elma Hellwig and her poodle Pooler with a box of her famous cinnamon rolls.
If there’s one person in Greensburg that everyone — especially the volunteers — likes to see coming, it’s Elma Hellwig. Especially if she’s got a cardboard box of her made-from-scratch cinnamon rolls in hand.
The 86-year-old, who lives in a FEMA trailer while her new home is being built, has a long history of baking tasty treats. Elma used to produce all the baked goods for Burke’s Restaurant in Greensburg. She might have been the secret to the restaurant’s success all those years.
A son of the original owners, Larry Burke, operates the Copper Oven in Wichita, also a successful restaurant. The baked goods — and the food —there are great, too.
Elma says she’d like to go to Burke’s restaurant some day. I told her she ought to surprise him with one of her famous cinnamon rolls to see if he has forgotten the melt-in-your-mouth taste. If he’s like most people, he hasn’t.
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