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TROOP 9
FLIPS OVER FLAPJACKS
This breakfast
of pancakes
and sausage
combines unit
money earning
with a worthy
Good Turn.
BY SCOTT DANIELS
Photographs by Perry Riddle
Legend has it that the mighty lumberjack
Paul Bunyan never missed a morning
without a breakfast plate heaped high with
buckwheats, topped with butter, and
drowned in maple syrup. It's said Paul loved
pancakes so much he had a special kitchen stove
built 24 feet long by five feet wide to cook them
on. It took five boys with bacon rinds strapped to
their feet skating across the griddle and four
flapjack cooks just to keep up with the ravenous
(Top) Committeeman Bill Randolph, left, and Scoutmaster
Lawrence Wood take a coffee break. (Above) Bargain prices
make Troop 9's breakfast a family affair. (Right) Joe
Nessinger and his Leader Dog, Lady.
appetites of Paul and his fellow loggers.
Paul was used to living life on a grand scale, so
there's no doubt if the famous axman ever left his
Minnesota northwoods to drop in on Troop 9's
annual pancake breakfast, he'd be impressed with
their operation.
Consider, for instance, this pantry of provisions:
170 pounds of pancake flour (enough for 5,355
individual pancakes), 13.5 gallons of syrup. 29
gallons of orange juice, 30 pounds of butter, 54
gallons of milk, six quarts of cream. 700 cups of
coffee and tea, and 248 pounds of link sausage.
Everybody in Wilmette, 111., a northern suburb
of the Windy City, knows that the first Saturday in
December means all-you-can-eat pancakes and
sausage down at the Community Church on
Forest Ave., Troop 9's chartered organization. It's
been that way for 26 years, and it's perhaps the
nation's most successful combination of a troop
money earner and Good Turn.
Tickets to the breakfast cost $2, and kids under
six get in free. Half of the breakfast profits are
used to buy and maintain troop equipment. The
other half is donated to Leader Dogs for the Blind
in Rochester, Mich., where it is used to provide
scholarships for training blind persons and the
Leader Dogs selected for them.
Joe Berol is the committee chairman of Troop 9
and the one they call "Mr. Pancake." He's the
fellow who got the idea for the breakfast after
several years of disappointing troop money-earn-
ing projects such as selling newsprint.
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