LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) — There was food and fellowship at the annual Lima Sertoma Club Pancake Breakfast.
This year marks the 69th year for the event, making it the longest-running pancake day in the area. Around a couple thousand people enjoyed either regular or blueberry pancakes, along with a sausage link specially made for the breakfast. It takes a dedicated team of volunteers to serve that many guests each year, as well as reliable equipment — including homemade rotating griddles that have been working hard for about six decades.
“We had guy named Dick Clevenger, had a sheet metal shop and the griddle tops were turned out at the Lima Loco works on the on the same machinery that the steam locomotive wheels were turned on. And it was, things that you could do back then. Most these machines are going on 60 years old now,” says Phillip Sellati, volunteered for over 50 year.
A large portion of the money raised from the breakfast helps fund the Sertoma Club’s Summer Speech and Hearing Clinic.
