Do I smell pancakes? East Meadow Kiwanis serves up some flapjacks to raise funds

East Meadow Kiwanis members donned their aprons and chef hats for the club’s annual pancake breakfast fundraiser on June 4.

Hundreds of community members spent their Sunday eating yummy pancakes, eggs, and sausages at Borrelli’s Restaurant in East Meadow. Since 2020, Frank Borrelli has donated the space for kiwanis to use.

The breakfast has been raising funds for more than 30 years, and is the club’s second-largest fundraiser, behind only the Steven J. Eisman Memorial Golf Outing. Money from the breakfast is used for Kiwanis scholarships for high school seniors and to send underprivileged children to Kamp Kiwanis, a sleep-away summer camp in Taberg, New York.

In addition to breakfast, there was a 50/50 raffle, prizes, and free blood pressure screenings. This year, the 501st Legion, an international organization dedicated to the creation and wearing of detailed replicas of villains from the “Star Wars” universe, stopped by as well.