Salvation Army celebrates National Donut Day
Story Location:
The Boardwalk
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States
Salvation Army volunteers spent the morning of June 1 handing out free donuts and water on the Boardwalk in Rehoboth in honor of National Donut Day.
According to the Salvation Army website, the first National Donut Day was celebrated in 1938 by The Salvation Army in Chicago. Salvation Army “Donut Lassies” served donuts to soldiers during World War I.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
