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Kiwanis supporters flip over annual pancake supper
The Gainesville Kiwanis Club served up breakfast for dinner Thursday to help raise money for area youth.
The Kiwanis Club hosted a pancake supper at the First State Bank Conference Center. The club has had a pancake breakfast in the past, but this year they decided to move the event to the evening.
“This is our first annual pancake dinner and we’re excited about it,” Kiwanis Club president Don Wood said. “The money will go to some good children benefits and we hope to make it an annual event and just make it bigger and bigger every year. Johnny Leftwich came up with the idea and thought we should give it a try. He thought with the Christmas activities going on around town we might could be pretty successful at it.”
The event was successful, according to Kiwanis Club member Patrick McCage, who said that they served 120 people Thursday night. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Butterfield Stage Youth Theater. The rest of the money will go into the club’s general benefit account.
The Kiwanis Club does many special projects for the Boys and Girls Club, 4-H, Head Start and Meals on Wheels.
While area citizens enjoyed breakfast staples like pancakes, sausage, biscuits and gravy, Kiwanis Club members stayed busy in the kitchen playing the part of cooks.
“I’m learning as I go,” Wood said. “I’m the sausage cooker tonight actually. Kent Sharp and Ned Newman are the pancake cookers.”
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