ANITOCH Monday Feb 11 2013 Elizabeth Peterson, reaches for a lemon Paczki as Karen Mahoney completes an order at St. Raphael The Archangel Catholic Church. | Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
ANITOCH Monday Feb 11 2013 Three-year-old Billy Pumala of Winthrop Harbor asks for some play time in front of a box of chocolate custard paczki's, the most popular paczki flavor ordered through St. Raphael The Archangel Catholic Church. | Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
ANITOCH Monday Feb 11 2013 Left to right, sixteen-year-old George Peterson, his 17-year-old sister Katie and their 16-year-old brother Thomas, all of Lake Villa, take a break from helping with Paczki orders at St. Raphael The Archangel Catholic Church. | Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
ANITOCH Monday Feb 11 2013 Karen Mahoney of Salem, Wisc., helps Ginger Skewres of Lindenhurst pick out different flavors of Paczki from the assortment of flavors, including custard, lemon, prune, apricot and apple. St. Raphael The Archangel Catholic Church marked the beginning of Lent with Paczki Day, were people could come in to pick up previously made orders, or buy an assortment on the spot. | Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
ANITOCH Monday Feb 11 2013 Gidget Leable of Wadsworth helps her grandson three-year-old Billy Pumala of Winthrop Harbor with trying a chocolate custard Paczki while assisting with orders of the traditional polish baked goods at St. Raphael The Archangel Catholic Church.| Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
ANTIOCH — Mark Stone walked in from the mid-February cold with what is normally an early-spring ritual on the agenda: Buying a dozen paczkis for his family. “I need six chocolate custard, three regular custard and three raspberry,” said Stone, waiting in the modest line …