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Kiwanis hosts 51st annual Pancake Festival
Harvey Morrison, Kiwanis member, helps serve some pancakes Saturday, March 20, 2010, at the 51st annual Kiwanis Pancake Festival at the Veterans Memorial Field House in Huntington
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HUNTINGTON -- The food may have been flat, but the spirits were not during the 51st annual Kiwanis Pancake Festival at the Veterans Memorial Field House Saturday.
The pancake chairman Richard Brunton said the group served about 12,000 pancakes, along with sausage, milk, coffee and soft drinks, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
"I'd say about 250 to 300 pancakes per hour," Brunton said. "The last few years we've been busiest between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m., but this year has been pretty steady throughout the day." Brunton said multiple events going on in the community, as well as warm, spring conditions outside caused the numbers through their gates to be a little lower than usual for the only Kiwanis fundraiser of the year.
"We'll make around $10,000 from this," he said. "We don't know of anything else that would give us the amount of money that this fundraiser does. We're too old for car washes. This is the biggest thing we can do." Kiwanis' dollars all go into multiple projects they support, including two Key Clubs, the sponsorship of four Terrific Kids and a child in Brazil, Boy and Girl Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs and 4-H. Many children from the group Kiwanis supports were on-hand helping out and cleaning up.
It was the first year that the festival also included an arts and crafts fair that Brunton said "went pretty well," in addition to a raffle for donated items such as tires, flowers and massages.
Billy and Joan Rose from Guyandotte said the pancake festival is an annual stop on their agenda.
"We always come -- every year. We like the service, the food is always good and it's for a good cause that we like to try to help out a little," Billy said.
Joan called herself an old-fashioned cook who has, of course, popped out an occasional pancake at home. "I've made some bad ones before, but you come here and someone else does all the work," she said.
