The 2014 Centre Lions Club Pancake Day will be this Saturday, March 15, from 6 a.m. until noon.. The event will be staged at the Centre First Baptist Church recreational outreach center, located at intersection of the U.S. 411 Chesnut By-Pass and Alabama Highway 9 (across the highway from the former Centre National Guard building).
Tickets are $5 each and may be purchased this week at The Cherokee County Herald office (in the Piggly Wiggly shopping center along West Main Street in Centre) or from any Lions member. Tickets will also be on sale at the front door of the ROC on March 15. Tickets for children 12 years of age and under will be $3 each and will be available at the door.
The menu will feature pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, regular and sugar-free syrup, butter, orange juice, coffee, milk, water, soft drinks.
Special easy-listening musical entertainment will be provided by Raymond Matthews and his daughter Ashley Matthews Mobley.
Mychael John Thomas will perform familiar tunes in a variety of styles.
The Centre Lions Club has been having Pancake Day each spring for more than 50 years. Proceeds are used for numerous community service projects — including scholarships for outstanding college-bound students, eyeglasses for needy students and adults, a youth leadership forum, donations to Alabama Lions Sight Conservation Association, sponsorship of students at a camp for diabetic youngsters, sponsorship of ten children with the Nettie Brown Christmas Clearinghouse, filled boxes for the Operation Christmas Child project of Samaritan’s Purse. The club has also assisted the Red Cross, Cherokee County Public Library, the Family Care Center, the Crisis Center, the pantry ministry in Cedar Bluff, the Cherokee County Museum, Boy Scouts, and many others.
The Centre Lions Club meets the first and third Wednesdays at noon at Lanny’s restaurant. Prospective members may contact club president Gaylon Hammett, membership chair Ann Carr, or any other Lions member.