For 60 years, the Sertoma Club has been flipping pancakes for the City of Lima to help raise money - in fact, the pancake day is one of the biggest events that the club puts on every year.
"This is our largest fundraiser for Lima Noon Sertoma, and the money goes back into helping our speech program that's held in the summer, also providing the Sharp Program, which is a hearing aid assistance program for those that would like some kind of assistance with their hearing aids," said Adah Ellerbrock, pancake chair for 2016.
Money raised also helps fund scholarships for people wanting to go into audiology at Bowling Green State University.  Pancake Day has become a tradition over the years, and that tradition is exactly what fuels people in holding the event the way it’s always been held, and coming back with their families.
There are some that have been doing this for 20 years, they have that same job that they've always done and are able to pass it down from one generation to the next, and also not just with organizing it, but coming here, there's a lot of people that said that they were here when they were just 'this big' and being able to pass that down to their grandkids and their kids," Ellerbrock said.
Even with 60 years of tradition, there’s still room for something new - and this year, it’s a little help from a Ohio Northern University sorority.Â
"We have the same philanthropy as them; we both work for speech and hearing philanthropies - so once they heard about that, they were like 'oh my gosh, this would be really cool if helped us out'," said Olivia Rinsmore, president of the ONU chapter of Delta Zeta, and a senior at Ohio Northern. "I think this is an amazing partnership, I think we both benefit from each other, I have huge manpower: I have 70 girls that I can say 'hey, let's go to Pancake Day!'"
Delta Zeta plans to return next year to help out the Sertoma Club again.
