• Brad Gessner will be the featured speaker at the Holiday Cookie Festival on October 12. He is pictured with fellow competitors and judges of the Great American Baking Show.
    Brad Gessner will be the featured speaker at the Holiday Cookie Festival on October 12. He is pictured with fellow competitors and judges of the Great American Baking Show.
  • Kate DePalma will speak at the festival on October 17.
    Kate DePalma will speak at the festival on October 17.

    Brad Gessner will be the featured speaker at HeART Gallery’s Holiday Cookie Festival on Saturday, October 12. The gallery is a ministry of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 428 North Erie, Toledo.

    Gessner, the chief counsel for the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office, beat out 20,000 applicants to appear as one of eight contestants on season two of “The Great American Baking Show.” He will describe his pre…