By Bob Strohm
bstrohm@wbcowqel.com
The Bucyrus Rotary Club will be serving up flapjacks Saturday morning, stacks and stacks of them for the 42nd Annual Rotary Pancake Day.
The fundraiser starts at 7 a.m. and lasts through 1 p.m. at the Bucyrus High School cafeteria. For the cost of $5 per adult they can enjoy all they can eat pancakes, $3 for children 7 and under. Proceeds for the event will go towards local school and community projects.
Rotary Club member and Pancake Day organizer Tami Tima explains what her favorite part of the Pancake Day is.
“The people, the Rotary people and the people that come in, the sponsors when they come in; I am so thankful that they give us such good stuff,” Tima said. “Like Hord Livestock has three pigs which they donated to us, and they take it to Link’s for us, Links takes care of it for us, and then we have to pick that up at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, it is that fresh, never frozen.”
New for this year’s Pancake Day will be a Pancake Eating Contest between Bucyrus, Colonel Crawford, and Wynford. The event will take place at noon with one student from each school participating in the contest. The winner will receive half the money from a basket for their school; with the other half being donated to the Rotary Club’s Strive Program.
Pancake Day won’t just be about pancakes as the Bucyrus Players junior high group, the Wynford Royals, and the Colonel Crawford Vision will provide 20 minute sets in the school’s Little Theater. The entertainment is being put together by Nikki French.
Can’t make it to the Rotary Pancake Day? Pancake meals will be available at Kettle Run, as well as at drive-thrus in Bucyrus. The Rotary will also make deliveries of meals within the city of Bucyrus.
“We are expanding this year. We are doing the pancake eating contest; we are moving the entertainment to the Little Theater. We are doing more to-go meals, which gets bigger every year,” Tima said. “Last year almost 1,500 people went through the door, but we are hoping for more this year.”