VIDEO: Confections For Any Occasion is a special candy shop CBS 58 first introduced you to two years ago. Owner Joel Bernhard achieved his success despite being blind since the age of 4. In 2022, he showed us how he laid out his store in a certain way, to help him remember where everything is. But last week, a fire ripped through his beloved store, leaving him forced to rebuild.
Confections For Any Occasion has long been a destination spot in Theresa. Now all Joel Bernhard wants is to come back stronger.
"I'm just in shock it took several days for it to sink in and realize what happened," said Bernhard.
Around midnight last Tuesday, Bernhard woke up to call he never expected.
"I was notified there was a fire in our store at 12:21, we noticed on our camera there was a red glow coming from the air conditioner and, in a few minutes, the whole place was totally filled up with smoke," Bernhard recalled.