Articles About Annual Flour and Sugar Delivery

• The giving Gaunt

  By Reilly DixonDecember 7, 2023

  

  Earlier this week, Village crews did a little sharing of their own and carried out the tradition of delivering flour and sugar to Yellow Springs widows and widowers.

• Annual flour, sugar delivery announced

  By YS News StaffNovember 10, 2023

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs Public Works Department crew will begin its annual delivery of flour and sugar to local widows and widowers on Monday, Nov. 20, and should complete deliveries by Wednesday, Nov. 22.

• Flour power

  By Reilly DixonNovember 26, 2021

  

  On Tuesday, Nov. 23, Village of Yellow Springs foreman Tanner Bussey dropped off a bag of flour and sugar to Susan Gartner as part of the Village’s annual distribution of the baking staples to local widows and widowers.

• Wheeling Gaunt’s legacy lives on

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 1, 2021

  

  Wheeling Gaunt’s generosity perseveres in a 126-year-old tradition of the delivery of flour to local widows and widowers at the holidays — a stipulation in Gaunt’s will when he bequeathed the land that is now Gaunt Park to the Village.

• The Gaunt that keeps on giving

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 2, 2020

  

  A village tradition since 1894, the annual delivery of flour and sugar to local widows and widowers continued again this year — a stipulation in Wheeling Gaunt’s will.