News : Hundreds share pancakes at annual Kiwanis pancake breakfast

Duane Randall talks to the Kiwanis kitchen crew as they make pancakes.

Scout John McNeill was one of many who helped with the Kiwanis breakfast.

It's a decades-old tradition that has been going on for so long that nobody can say for sure exactly when it began. But every year, the Kiwanis members serve pancakes during the first Saturday in March. And every year, Vinton area residents keep coming back.

The tradition continued this Saturday at the Vinton Skate Center, where 2011 Kiwanis members, assisted by local Cub Scouts, served pancakes and sausage.

Mike and Caroline Hibbs ran the ticket table. Mike said attendance was very good. He recalled breakfasts of decades past when auctions and other events were part of the day's activities.