If anyone knows a thing or two about great service, it is the brave veterans of our community who provided a different kind of service to the community Saturday morning.
Emporia’s American Legion Post 5 hosted its very first pancake breakfast inside the main hall with a menu consisting of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, eggs and drinks. The breakfast was first and foremost a fundraiser to support updates to the legion’s kitchen, which has not seen a meaningful update since 1999.
In addition to raising those dollars, the breakfast also served a few other purposes, namely bringing new faces to the legion and thus helping to raise awareness of its role in the community according to legion member and former Post Commander Clay Childs.
Childs says the event also provided a time to promote the upcoming arrival of the Wall That Heals, a mobile replica of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C., which will be coming to Emporia in August. Childs also says he hopes the breakfast will become a regular event for the legion, saying it is always great to have time to interact with the community and their fellow veterans.
Fundraising totals are currently pending.
