Pancake Breakfast 2008

Nearly 200 pancake connoiseurs converged on the Oswego High School cafeteria on Sunday, May 4, 2008, to enjoy their annual treat of Rotary pancakes with real Tug Hill Plateau maple syrup. As usual, many cheerful and helpful Rotarians were on hand to cook, serve, and clean up. We especially appreciate the support of the Oswego School District Board of Education and David Fischer, School Superintendent, for permitting the use of the facility and the superlative work of Dennis Jerome, Director of Food Service for the Oswego City School District.

Rotarian Tony Henderson and PDG Bruce Frassinelli greet guests and handle tickets, 50/50, baked goods, and maple products.

Behind the counter Rotarians Sabina Ingerson, Viv Sayer, and Ed Caraccioli served up breakfasts for the dining room or take-out.

Rotarian Joe Hutchinson and his daughter, Janelle, dish up service with a smile. 

Rotarian Steve Wise making sure our guests were well served.

Workers taking a break. Seated club president Bill Crist and vice president Dave Granoff. Standing Dennis Jerome, Food Service Director, and Dave Fischer, Superintendent of Schools, Oswego City School District.

Second from left is our Rotary exchange student from Bavaria, Doris Skiba, who served in the dining room. To her right is Rotarian Paul Heins.

Poster

Join your friends and neighbors for breakfast on Sunday, May 4, at the Oswego Rotary Club’s 27th annual pancake breakfast. It will be held again this year at the Oswego High School cafeteria. Customers should park and enter the building on the Utica Street side. Serving will be from 8:00 A.M. to Noon. Tickets are available from any member of the club or by calling 343-9692 or at the door.

The breakfast will celebrate a north country springtime tradition by serving delicious Oswego County maple syrup, fresh from the Tug Hill Plateau sugar house of Charles Nemier of Boylston. The “all you can eat” menu will feature pancakes; maple and other syrups; scrambled eggs; patty or link sausages; orange juice; and coffee, tea, or milk. An assortment of homemade baked goods will be sold. A variety of Nemier Pure Maple Products will also be available for purchase. The Nemier family has been making maple syrup in the town of Boylston for over 75 years.

The Oswego Rotary Club is in its eighty-first year of service in the Oswego community. Rotary seeks to promote fellowship, high professional standards in one’s occupation, and service to one’s community and the world. The club awards three $1000 scholarships each year and a $500 occupational education award. It is presently hosting an exchange student from Germany. The Top 100 Dinner is held each year to honor the 25 highest-ranking students in each of the classes at Oswego High School. Members of the club assist with many local service activities such as trail cleanup, Project Bloom, spelling bee, Oswego Hospital bazaar, Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army bell ringing, Gift of Vision, and Literacy Volunteers.

Rotary International is an organization of more than 30,000 clubs around the world. It strives to promote peace, understanding, and cooperation through various programs and humanitarian projects. In cooperation with Rotary District 7150 and the Rotary Foundation, the Oswego club has contributed to equipping a school in India and providing lifesaving and sight-saving treatment to young people of countries where needed treatment was not available. It has also given funds to help provide clean water in areas where many children die each year of water-borne illnesses. All Rotarians are still engaged in a project called Polio Eradication which is collaborating with other agencies to eliminate polio from the countries where it is still a health threat. The project was begun in 1985 as a way of marking the one-hundredth anniversary in 2005, of the founding of Rotary. The two Oswego Rotary clubs are collaborating to furnish the Community Room in the restored and expanded City Library.

Anyone having questions about Rotary or Rotary membership or about the pancake breakfast is invited to call Vernon Tryon, breakfast chairman, at 343-9692.