BEHIND THE BREAKFAST

      MONDAY, NOBVEMBER 27TH., 2017
             BEHIND THE BREAKFAST

   As reported in my Sunday Blog my wife and I
and several family members ended a very long
Saturday with an early morning pancake and
sausage breakfast at the Unityville Fire Company
not far off Route 118 in Lycoming County.
     This stop, though not usually at 2:30am. has
become as much a part of my Thanksgiving
tradition as Turkey on the day itself.
      I came across it quite by accident a few
years back. From the day after Thanksgiving
until 9 Sunday night shifts of Fire Department
members and volunteers cook up hundreds of
pounds of delicious pork sausage and fantastic
buckwheat pancakes to a couple thousand
hungry customers who come, some at all hours
like our gang, to enjoy a meal and to support
their Fire Company.
       Members, their wives, their children, and
friends, set the tables, keep the food coming. and
clean up afterwards. Trays of sausage wait in a
freezer to be formed into patties, an all night
job in anticipation of the crowds that show up
at "normal hours."
      The gang we met during our early morning
visit said the numbers of customers continue
to grow each year even during the wee hours.
So does the work load for the volunteers!
      Still, it seems the smaller or more rural
the area the more people seem willing to
help each other out,
       The Company makes more money on
efforts like gun raffles but I think everyone
enjoys seeing people come together for the
Thanksgiving holiday "breakfast."
       Hope you'll put it on your calendar
for next year and that all your NEWS is
good!