A few good pancakes returns

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A Few Good Men will host their third semi-annual fundraiser, A Few Good Pancakes, from 5-7:30 p.m. Friday at the Hillsdale Free Methodist Church.
This club is the largest volunteer community on campus. The organization does projects a couple of times a week to help people in the community, whether that be raking a lawn, painting a house, or chopping firewood to heat their homes for the winter.
Dinner will include speeches made by Executive Director sophomore Jacob Thackston on the club’s future and Chief Operations Officer senior Thomas King on this year’s operations. Afterward, a silent auction will be held.
“We want the people we serve to pay nothing,” Thackston said. “It’s going to go directly back to that.”
A Few Good Pancakes is their largest fundraiser of the year, usually serving several hundred people. It allows the club to merge the college campus with the Hillsdale community as a whole.
“People from all walks of life come together for this event to get the chance to interact with each other and get to know each other on a real level,” Thackston said. “We see A Few Good Men as a bridge between campus and the community.”
Chief Financial Officer senior Evan Gensler added the event raises awareness of the difficult situations in Hillsdale’s own community.
While the fundraiser will mostly go to supplies for the smaller projects A Few Good Men does a few times a week and their salt and shoveling initiative for this upcoming winter, the largest project they have ahead of them is with the Hillsdale Youth Center, a place where local kids can go Friday nights.
“Their roof is in awful condition,” Thackston said. “Two [furnaces] are kind of working, and the third is out. We’re looking into what we can do before the winter. We can’t obviously fix the roof, but there are some things we can do, and in the long term, help them to purchase another furnace and repair the roof as best as we can.”
Although the dinner is free and welcome to all, a donation of $5 is appreciated.
“The pancake breakfast atmosphere is always very joyful and welcoming,” King said. “Each year it feels more and more like A Few Good Men family reunion with those we’ve helped in the community.”