Sandys Donuts FargoSandy’s Donuts was the creation of Sandy Ostlund and his love for making donuts. In 1983 Sandy lost his job running a trucking company. He was 55 years old and had a difficult time finding a new job. He was becoming very frustrated. A good friend suggested that he open a donut shop. You might find this to be an odd suggestion, but Sandy’s friends and family knew that he loved making donuts. When Sandy was a child, his mother taught him to make donuts in a cast iron pan on a coal-burning stove using her very own buttermilk donut recipe. As an adult he would make them often for his friends who found them delicious.