The third annual Wheeling Gaunt Community Service Award presentation event, sponsored by the Wheeling Gaunt Sculpture Project Committee and the YS Arts Council, was held virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 23. This year’s award was presented to the Yellow Springs Community Foundation. Previous honorees were The 365 Project in 2020 and Mikasa Simms’ first grade class at Mills Lawn in 2019.
“We decided to acknowledge the Yellow Springs Community Foundation because their support for our community, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been pitch perfect to the type of legacy that Wheeling Gaunt left for our town,” said Sculpture Project Manager Cheryl Durgans.
In the days immediately following Ohio’s stay-at-home order, the Community Foundation leaped into action, forming groups to address food insecurity, collecting and distributing masks which were difficult to find early in the pandemic to essential workers, and, with the YS Credit Union, establishing a fund to distribu