Kiwanis Club continues Pancake Day charity

The Homewood-Mountain Brook Kiwanis Club will host its annual Pancake Day charity fundraiser at The Exceptional Foundation on Saturday, March 17, from 7 a.m. to noon.

Attendees can enjoy all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, milk, coffee and orange juice for $5. 

Children ages 5 and younger eat free.

Pancake Day, which also offers a silent auction, raised about $22,000 in 2017, according to club spokesperson Jamie Brabston. 

The club uses the proceeds each year to make donations to many local groups, including the Shades Valley YMCA; the Key Clubs at Homewood, Clay-Chalkville and Hewitt-Trussville high schools; the Aktion Club at The Exceptional Foundation; and the "Sunday Club" at South Highland Presbyterian Church.

“Each year, we receive a number of requests from our community for financial support, and we grant as many of these as our budget allows,” Brabston said.

Pancake Day funds have also allowed the club to make large donations to Children’s of Alabama hospital the last two years.

In 2016, the club helped the hospital buy some iPads for children to use while awaiting surgery or during recovery to provide comfort and lower their stress levels.

In 2017, the club helped the Alabama District Key Club raise $60,000 to pay for a waiting room for parents and other family members in the new hospital’s new dialysis wing.

Pancake Day will include a clown, face painting and other children’s activities. 

For more information, go to homewood-mtbrook-al.kiwanisone.org.