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Susan Phillips, Ed Krepela, Marie Fikus, Riana Rawson and Kiwanis Club President Steve Branham
Marie Fikus and Riana Rawson are all smiles as they prepare piles of pancakes for the annual breakfast.
Bob and Betty Hoff
Beryl Schwarztrauber and John Wild
Wayne Smith and Jim Larson
Cash Register mixes the pancake batter at the 2017 Kiwanis Club pancake breakfast.
Photo by Katie JohnsJim Krenik and Richard March
Ed Krepela serves Lisa Peterson sausage links at the Kiwanis Club Annual Pancake Breakfast.
Lisa and Glenn Peterson
Jim Krenik cooks blueberry pancakes. Him and Richard March are known as the veteran pancake makers for the annual breakfast.
Mayor Terry Gans and Susan Phillips
Joyce and Alastair McGhee
Norma and Tom King
Raine Rawson made Mickey Mouse shaped pancakes during the breakfast.
For the few kids there, they got a special shaped pancake that resembled Mickey Mouse.
Sandy Buchanan, Pauline Cudnohufsky and James Buchanan
Joe Walsh and Asima Palmer
Jacobus and Elizabeth Van den Berg and Pipsqueak
Tanya Venter and Debi Kleer
Nan Keating, Ida Locarmi and Lorena Noyes
Riana Rawson is all smiles as she flips pancakes during the breakfast.
Richard March pours pancake batter. Club President Steve Branham estimates that they made more than 1,000 pancakes during the breakfast.
Jim Krenik and Richard March take turns flipping pancakes during the breakfast.
Phillipe, 11, Marie and Yves Fikus
Herman and Beth Waldman and the Rev. Gerry Finegan
Susan Phillips gives John Waldmueller the $135 he won in the 50/50 raffle.
While most people were still snug in their beds sleeping off their St. Patrick’s Day celebration, the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key was awake and warming up some griddles.
The Kiwanis Club hosted its annual pancake breakfast on March 18 at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.
Fifteen club volunteers gathered at 6 a.m., before the sun was even up, and began cooking and preparing the food. Over the course of four hours, President Steve Branham estimates that the club made more than 1,000 pancakes. Breakfast attendees also enjoyed sausage links, coffee and juice.
The breakfast is the club’s second biggest fundraiser following the Gourmet Lawn Party with all proceeds benefiting the club’s grant and scholarship fund. Last year, the breakfast raised around $3,000 and Branham said the club hopes to do the same this year.
As hungry customers arrived they were greeted warmly by Kiwanis members who were eager to fill empty plates with stacks of pancakes. Branham said the breakfast is kind of like a cross section of all the people of Longboat Key. The breakfast draws a big crowd, young and old.
“It’s like a little gathering of people in town,” he said.
