Cub Scouts serve up pancakes

Cub Scout Pack 987 held a Memorial Day pancake breakfast to raise money for scout camp. For only $5 breakfast seekers were treated to homemade pancakes, eggs and sausage served up by a full wait staff of scouts from Pack 987.

Sampson Salvone and Jared Loomis did their part by waiting tables.

Cub Scout parents were hard at work in the kitchen preparing breakfast.

In previous years, funding for the day camp was raised by selling tickets to the Scout-A-Rama Festival, which usually takes place in November. Unfortunately the 2005 festival had been cut, limiting the pack’s ability to raise money.

“We had discussed the idea of a Pancake Breakfast before, but had decided it was too big of an undertaking,” stated Cub Scout Leader Robin Kellogg, “but with the Scout-A-Rama being cut, we had to do something.”

Kellogg attributed much of the success of the event to supportive local businesses. “Hickman’s Farm donated eggs, Farabee’s Farm Fresh Meats donated breakfast sausage,” Kellogg explained, “and both Fry’s and Bashas gave us $25 gift certificates to help us buy our supplies.”

Scout Leader Robin Kellogg

Brandon Taylor, Jared Loomis and Terence Salvone worked hard and had fun while serving breakfast.

Kellogg was hopeful that enough money would be raised at the breakfast to be able to send fifteen boys to the Heard Scout Pueblo scout camp. The three-day day camp, held in June, provides the scouts with opportunities to earn badges as well as participate in archery, swimming and BB gun shooting.