BELLE FOURCHE—All you can eat hot and fluffy pancakes, sausage patties and drinks were served up by the Belle Fourche Lions Club on Sunday morning, March 29.
The Belle Fourche Lions Club is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year!
They do a variety of fundraisers throughout the year: All Car Rally Food Truck, Black Hills Roundup Ushers, Aluminum Can Collection and the Pancake Feed. “Lions Club has been doing this Pancake Breakfast for about 15 or 16 years now and it’s probably our single biggest fundraiser,” explained Tom Nary, Lions Club.
A fairly recent addition to the Pancake Breakfast is the silent auction. “Something that has changed since the beginning is that several of our donors—rather than buying tickets to the event—donated prizes, so we’ve incorporated and added the silent auction to the eating portion of the event,” said Nary. “The number of donations was a lot less than what we have today. So it appears to be growing!”
It was all hands on deck for cooking, serving, cleaning tables and collecting money for the club members. “I think we started off with about 13 or 14 members this morning,” explained Nary.
The event was held at the Belle Fourche Moose Lodge, and for $5 per person you could eat all the pancakes you wanted! Kids under 5 ate for free. “This has been very good, we’ve been busy.
We haven’t had a huge rush, but we’ve been pretty consistently busy all morning,” said Nary.
Keeping consistent with their mission to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding, along with public service and community improvements since 1936, a portion of the Pancake Fundraiser proceeds will be donated to community needs, though the exact organizations haven’t been picked yet.
“We haven’t decided yet for this year, but I can tell you, for example, last year we donated to the Compassion Cupboard here in town, the Belle Silver Lining Senior Center, and the Artemis House in Spearfish,” shared Nary. “We haven’t decided yet, but it would be similar nonprofit charity organizations.”
Lions Club member Deena Nible was in charge of collecting money and keeping track of the number of people through the door. As of around 11 a.m., nearly 300 people had already been in to support the Lions Club and eat a fresh pancake breakfast. The event ran until 1 p.m.
For anyone interested in becoming a Belle Fourche Lions Club member, they are always looking for new people to join! They meet twice a month and plan community service projects. You can find them on Facebook at Belle Fourche Lions Club.
Generous business and individuals who donated items for the Silent Auction include: Los Agaves, Stadium Sports Grill, Hersrud’s of Belle Fourche, Office Emporium, Crossroads at Mid-America Travel Plaza, Belle Fourche Country Club, Hills Interiors, Pioneer Bank and Trust, Allison’s Pantry—Melodey Zupan, Runnings, The Breakfast Club, Dinosaurs of Hell Creek Museum, Yes Way Wine and Spirits, Quality Quick Print, Belle Chiropractic, Buck ’N Brocs Car Wash, Belle Fourche Dry Cleaning, AmericInn, Lynn’s and Grap’s Burgers & Brews–Jim Grapentine, Krystyna Wood, Kaitlynn Holberg and Deena Nible.
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