Anyone traveling through downtown Danville this Thursday will likely notice the smell of pancakes in the air. The Danville Noon Kiwanis Club is hosting its 73rd Annual Pancake and Sausage Day that day at the David S. Palmer Arena.
Continuous serving will occur from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Wes Bieritz, coordinator of this year’s Kiwanis Pancake Day, notes that last year around 25-hundred people attended the event….
{“I’m hoping for 3-thousand this year. And maybe with a little help of extra advertising we can get 3-thousand. We used to have well over 3-thousand before the COVID process came along and kind of cut us back. So that’s what we’re hoping for this year. Come and see us. You can sit around and talk as long as you want to, and have more pancakes if you wish.”}
Terri Davis, the president of the Danville Noon Kiwanis Club, says proceeds from the event go to support local youth…including awarding some scholarships….
{“We give some to Danville High School. We also give some to Bismarck High School. We have the Boys and Girls Club who we donate to, the Women’s Care Clinic, Hooves of Hope, Danville Family YMCA, V. C. Conservation. We also do Peer Court. There’s quite a bit.”} The proceeds go to twenty-five youth related causes around Vermilion County.
Bieritz notes a local industry supplies some key support for the event…
{AUDIO: ‘’We get that from the PepsiCo Company, which is the company that owns the Quaker outfit here in Danville. Every year we get pancake mix and syrup from them. And they donate that to us. Without that donation our funds would not go very far.”}
Other major corporate sponsors for this year’s Kiwanis Pancake Day include The Commercial-News, Full-Fill Industries, and Travis M. Mains, IPG Insurance.
Advance ticket sales have been underway for $25 for a packet of four tickets. They are available by calling 217-497-3087. Tickets at the door are $7, which is good for one adult meal or two meals for children under twelve.
(Photo above is Wes Bieritz on left and Terri Davis on right.)
