BROWNSTOWN
Brownstown Exchange Club’s annual pancake breakfast has enabled the club to support a lot of community groups and projects over the years, including the Boys Scouts and FFA.
The club, chartered in 1966, also maintains the American flags at entrances to the town and at the county park and helps each year at Christmas with a project to deliver gifts bags to veterans in nursing homes.
But this year’s pancake feast — conducted Saturday in the cafeteria at Brownstown Central High School — may have been the club’s best contribution to the community as they fed the boys basketball team before they played in the Class 3A Sectional 26 final at Edgewood. The Braves won 46-45.
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Club President Kevin Stiles said many in the community are saying the breakfast gave the team the added boost it needed to earn the program’s 14th sectional crown.
"I wouldn’t deny that," Stiles said Tuesday morning.
"(The team) had just finished their morning workout and they were hungry," Stiles said.
So the club treated the players to not just firsts and seconds but leftovers.
"We gave them all the sausages they could eat," Stiles said.
Besides serving the team, Stiles said the club raised $1,400 by serving more than 200 people, including Kaitlyn Pogue of Brownstown, her sons, Alexander, 3½, and Oliver, 2, and other family members.
Pogue said she and her family have attended the breakfast for several years and find the food to be great.
"And it’s for a good cause," she said.
To serve more than 200 meals each year requires an effort from most, if not all, of the club members.
Miko McRoy of Medora was one of them.
He joined the club a couple of years ago and has been helping out at the breakfast for about that long.
Although it’s a lot of work, McRoy said he was up for it.
"I got here and they said, ‘You’re cooking pancakes today,’" he said. "I said, ‘OK.’"
Club member Jed Wheatley also spent his morning in the kitchen helping prepare the meal, which included eggs.
"We’ll probably run through 20 to 25 pounds of flour and about 70 packs of sausages," he said.
Rose Acre Farms donated 45 quarts of liquid eggs for the meal, and each quart contained 20 eggs.
Although the club contributes regularly to some organizations, there are always more groups needing help.
During Tuesday’s club meeting, for instance, members voted to donate money to help pay for transportation costs for the high school Drama Club’s trip to Disney World, Stiles said.
The club does the same for FFA members when they go off for leadership training, while the Boy Scout troop received funds to purchase tents, he said.
Stiles said the club just makes such a difference in the community.
"It’s nice to have a group of folks whose focus is just ‘How can we make this a better community than it already is?’ and we’re just looking at how we can support the school and support businesses," he said. "We meet every week, and we have a speaker every week. We bring folks from the community so we can keep in contact with what’s happening. We like being connected to the community."
If you missed out on the pancakes this time around, the club also conducts a pancake breakfast in the fall each year. There also is a plan to sell porkburgers a couple of times this year to replace the Round Barn Bike Ride. Dates and locations for those porkburger sales have yet to be set.
The club had the breakfast at least since March 1984. Proceeds from that year’s event were used to buy signs and print pamphlets for a neighborhood watch program that was being put in place by the club, according to the Feb. 25 edition of the Brownstown Banner. Ticket prices that year were $2.50 for adults and $1.25 for children if purchased in advance.
2020-03-11 06:10:11Z
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