![]() ![]() They’ve operated Peace on Earth since they fired up the pizza oven the day after Christmas in 1996. The Hansons have recognized that connection for years. I can do this.’ Or, you know, it kind of just lights that spirit back up in them, I think.” “Maybe they haven’t seen their family in a long time, and when you get a message like that on one of these pizza boxes, it gives you that extra push to say, ‘OK, I’m almost there. “It was the most gut-wrenching happiness I’ve ever seen, because it was just, when he saw that, you know, there was that connection,” she said. “And when he read that, he just teared up, and it got the whole Iditarod checkpoint emotional.”Įven a year later, standing in her kitchen at home, Davida’s eyes were welling up. “The message on there says, ‘Love you, Daddy, from your bubby girl,’” Davida said, holding up her phone to show a picture of Turner eating the pizza. She included a message from their baby daughter. That’s what happened last year when Australian musher Christian Turner’s wife called in an order from their home in Queensland, over 6,500 miles away. Left to right: Davida, Bret and Joann Hanson in the family's restaurant, Peace on Earth, as they took pizza orders for mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 10, 2024. “Some of them are long, you know, so you’re sitting there, and you don’t want to mess up on the message, and it might be a couple sentences, and you’re actually writing a whole note to this person.”ĭavida Hanson holds her grandson, Christopher, while looking over pizza orders with her daughter-in-law, Joann, at Peace on Earth, the family's restaurant in Unalakleet, on Sunday, March 10, 2024. “Some of them get pretty personal,” Davida said. ![]() Oh, and can you put a heart on there?’”Īnd, yes, they will draw a heart on the box, she said. “And so you get, ‘Love, from Mom and Dad. “You get moms and dads, you know, ordering their kids pizzas,” Davida said. The messages say things like “Good luck” and “Keep on mushing.” Some are inside jokes or written in a language other than English that Peace on Earth owners Davida and Bret Hanson, who cook the pizzas and write the messages in marker atop each box, don’t even understand. The calls kept coming as the front-running sled dog teams came in Sunday. Their family, friends and fans began placing pizza orders by phone weeks ago. The mushers have been arriving here at the edge of Alaska, cold and tired after long stretches with only sled dogs to keep them company. UNALAKLEET - They’re selling love by the slice at the local pizzeria.Įncouraging messages from all over the globe come with each pizza that the Peace on Earth restaurant delivers to this Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race checkpoint, about three-quarters of the way into the nearly 1,000-mile race. The couple was busy baking pizzas for mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Bret Hanson puts Canadian bacon on a pizza in the kitchen at Peace on Earth, the restaurant in Unalakleet he owns with his wife, Davida. ![]()
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