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Kiwanis are prepared for pancakes
Published April 3, 2009
SEGUIN — Setting up and taking down grilling stations at a pancake breakfast can be a strenuous task, but the Kiwanis Club of Seguin will no longer have those difficulties.
Thanks to many hours of work by LeRoy Beicker, the club now has a mobile flapjack station that will take much less time to set-up, take down and clean than in previous years.
Beicker said that he was approached by Kiwanis member Henry Hill and said he was more than happy to give assistance.
“They are a good club and they do good things for the community and I figured I could help them,” he said. “I think it was a very good idea that they came up with. It will relieve them of a lot of work either before and after the Flapjack Jamboree, and it takes a lot of work off of a lot of different people.”
After years of loading and unloading the grills and dropping them on feet, Kiwanis member Ronnie Pargmann said, he and a couple other members came up with a solution.
“Basil [Kallies], Henry [Hill] and I, and some other folks, all put our heads together,” he said. “We had all of these fantastic ideas and we all drew pictures.”
Knowing that the trailer would be in good hands, Pargmann said he could take a step back.
“Mr. Beicker offered to look at it and help us,” Pargmann said. “And when Henry called me and told me Mr. Beicker was considering it, I said, ‘I was throwing all of my drawings away, because anything I can think of isn’t going to be as good as what Mr. Beicker could come up with.’”
Coming up with a design was a simple task, Beicker said.
“It did not take me long to decide what I was going to do,” he said. “I think I worked on it for about a month to three weeks, but I did not work on it all that time, I worked on it between other jobs.”
The grills-on-wheels will not only be a convenience, but it can help generate more funds, said Kelly Jeffery, co–chairwoman of the Flapjack Jamboree.
“The trailer is really going to make the set-up easier and it saves a lot of time loading and unloading,” she said. “We would loan a grill or two out but now we can go there and cook the hamburgers there. We can also go to places like the Pecan Festival in October or go to the Heritage Museum and serve pancakes out there.
“We will be able to do a whole lot more now and we can possible have more of these events through out the year since we will be able to move around.”
This Flapjack Jamboree’s feast is scheduled for April 18 from 6 a.m. to noon at the Silver Center.
Tickets for the event are $6 and will get a patron three to four pancakes depending on the size and two to three sausages along with a morning beverage or your choice, Jeffery said.
But breakfast is not the only thing on the menu for that morning, she said.
“We will have entertainment inside, a silent auction inside, and we will start serving at 6 a.m. until noon,” she said. “We have the Kingsbury Opry and they are going to play from 9–10 a.m. and then there will be the jazz band from Navarro High School.”
Those who don’t have time to take a seat can get their breakfast on-the-go, Jeffery said.
“We will have a drive-through line outside and seating inside,” she said. “The drive-through line will get a little thing of Sunny Delight in their to-go box.”
The proceeds from the breakfast are distributed to a number of organizations, said member Ed Englehardt.
“The money that we generate from this project goes into youth projects like Little League, the women’s shelter — you name it we support it, if it has to do with youth,” he said.
The Kiwanis are not the only ones involved in the ticket sales said Jeffery.
“We have the police department and the sheriff’s department selling tickets for us,” she said. “For every $6 ticket they sell, they are going to get $5 back. The police department’s goes towards their DARE program and the sheriff’s department’s last year, I believe, went to the Children’s Advocacy Center. So that is a way that we can help them and they can help us.”
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