Wednesday, January 24, 2001
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Wednesday, January 24, 2001 |
| Kiwanis
Club of Peachtree City plans ninth annual Pancake Saturday By MICHAEL
BOYLAN What do you get when you take 800 pounds of sausage, 600 pounds of pancake batter, 10,000 ounces of syrup and more than 100 gallons of coffee and mix it up with a festival type atmosphere? You get the Kiwanis Pancake Saturday. The Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City is celebrating its ninth year of hosting the event this year and the Pancake Saturday promises yet again to be one tasty day. There will be clowns from the Peachtree City Fire Department promoting safety, a barbershop quartet entertaining the crowds, face painting, balloons and a child safety seat inspection from SAFEKIDS. Uncle Rich from 98.1 FM will be on hand Saturday with a live broadcast. He also will give away tickets to the event all week on the radio. There will also be a number of pancake eating contests Saturday. The contests are not based upon amounts of pancakes, but rather eating time. There will be a "preacher challenge" this year where representatives from a number of churches will compete to see who is the fastest, as well as the annual youth challenge and Kiwanis challenge. Kiwanis clubs from all over are invited to attend and if they bring four or more members, their club receives points and they compete in the challenge. Last year, a dozen clubs participated and the Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City is looking for a larger contest this year. "We're expecting 2,500 people this year," said Pancake Saturday Chairman Butch Hill. "Last year, we were postponed a week due to the weather and that hurt our attendance a little." The Pancake Saturday is a fund-raiser for the Kiwanis Club, which supports a number of projects in the community, including those directed at local youth, seniors and battered women. Club funds purchase all of the supplies for Project DARE and 100 percent of all money raised goes back to the community. The Kiwanis Club truly loves the event. Hill has been chairman of the event for all nine years and he claims that most of the people that work the event are in the same positions year after year. They are truly a well-oiled machine. "Between 9 and 11 a.m., we serve a new customer every six seconds," said Hill. That's 1,200 customers in the course of two hours. It is also clear that the club cares about the quality of the event. Members get their sausage from a place in Griffin, and every year people rave about it and ask where they get it from. They could find a cheaper sausage but the quality and pleasing the people who come out to Pancake Saturday matters more. Pancake Saturday will be at McIntosh High School from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The all-you-can-eat meal will cost $4 and tickets will be sold by any Kiwanian or at Days Inn, Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn or Sleep Inn in Peachtree City or at the door. For information, phone 770-487-3500. |
