Kiwanis Club Pancake Day set for Saturday

Kiwanis Pancake Day will be from 6 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Poplar Bluff Junior High School.

Tickets for the pancake breakfast may be purchased in advance from any club member or at the door the day of the event.

Children are the primary focus for the local Kiwanis Club and for 81 years, the club members have hosted an annual pancake day to raise funds to benefit them.

Funds raised will be used to create a safe playground environment “for all children, of all capabilities to come together to play,” said club member Meredith Rines. “The Kiwanis Club saw a need in our community and felt as if we should come together. Our children deserve a place to play, to be a kid and to just have a good time. We want the Kiwanis Bacon Memorial Park to fill a void that our community was missing.”

Money from the event will be used in the development of the second phase of the park.

This phase “will bring additional all-inclusive play equipment into the park,” Rines said, which “will connect to make a large playground built with pour-and-play rubber surface to create a safer area for our kids and a surface for wheelchairs, walkers or crutches to easily travel on.”

“Once we have enough then we will install Phase II and then see where that takes us. We have the opportunity to keep developing and updating the park as needed,” Rines said.

The club members support other local organizations by holding drives and events throughout the year.

“Each winter we collect pajamas for Foster Adopt Connect to help children in foster care,” she said. “We collect diapers and other items throughout the year, too, to benefit foster children. We also host our Wolf Creek Trail Run each spring and our annual Nashville Christmas Concert in December.”