2024 Pancake Breakfast at Lachat

By Harry Falber

Kiwanians served our community by cheffing at the the Labor Day Pancake Family Breakfast at Lachat Town Farm’s Daniel E. Offutt III Education Center for the second year in a row. This year celebrated the first anniversary of the education center.

Building bonds within the Weston community is an important goal of Weston Kiwanis, and if it takes flipping pancakes to bring us together, that’s where we’ll be. Once again, that’s where we were—serving up well over 200 breakfasts for four sittings out of Brian’s Kitchen.

While prep started early in the week, the main Kiwanis work began before Sunday at 7 a.m., when Dan Lerner, with help from Harry Falber, prepped and cooked over 580 sausage links, not to mention some vegan sausage patties. By 8 a.m., the rest of the Kiwanis crew, Steve and Vicki Thomas, Frank Ferrara, and David McConnaughey, were hands-on in the kitchen serving up what seemed like nearly a thousand pancakes, with Karen Chrisley working from the front to the back of the house, ensuring all the guests were happily fed.

WHS students that Kiwanian Dawn Egan brought to the farm fielded table service and bussed tables, as well as kept up with all the dishwashing throughout the meal service.

Pictured above: Geoffrey Hollander, Dan Lerner, Harry Falber, Tom Johnson, Frank Ferrara, Steve Thomas, David McConnaughey and Taylor Holtz preparing pancakes in the kitchen of the Daniel E. Offutt III Education Center at Lachat Town Farm. Kiwanis photograph by Vicki Thomas.

Nobody bothered to tell Steve Thomas that a barista spells with microfoam in espresso, not pancake with batter on plate. Kiwanis photograph by Vicki Thomas.