By Thia James

Local Kinsmen hold annual pancake breakfast

Feb 28, 2014 | 11:06 AM

The Prince Albert Kinsmen hosted the annual pancake breakfast to raise funds for Telemiracle at Humpty’s Family Restaurant on Friday.

Patrons bought a pancake meal for $5, with all proceeds from the breakfast going towards Telemiracle. All of the food, staffing and organization were donated by the restaurant’s owner and manager Robert Dunn.

“Being [open] 24 hours, my prep guys started in the graveyard shift getting ready to go, and I just had to come in and cook,” Dunn said. By the halfway point of the three hour fundraising breakfast, he had made 100 pancakes to order.

The newly-renovated restaurant was busier than usual during the breakfast hours on Friday.

“I think being a local business owner, you kind of have to give back to the community, and this is kind of one of the ways I do it. I’ve been part of the Kinsmen Club for a couple years now, I don’t get really involved, but it’s one of the things I can do,” Dunn said.

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For the Kinsmen Club, this event kicks in conjuction with Telemiracle’s big weekend, which runs from Saturday night to Sunday in Regina.

“So [we] start off with the breakfast this morning, the cabaret tonight, leading right into a half dozen of us Kinsmen guys going down to Regina before Telemiracle start[s] tomorrow,” Charles Reid, vice-president of Kinsmen Club in Prince Albert.

He said the Kinsmen Club started preparing for the Telemiracle events in Prince Albert three months ago.

“I would say we’re prepared to serve a few hundred, whether or not we actually get a few hundred, but we would be prepared to serve that many,” Reid said.

This is Telemiracle’s 38th year, and since its inception, it has raised more than $80 million. “All the money stays local within our community, and it goes to help anything from special needs equipment to help paying for travel for people who maybe have sick children. Sort of anything you can think of in terms of the needs of Saskatchewan people.”

Telemiracle donates to individuals and organizations which request funding. Jared Devers, president of the Prince Albert Kinsmen Club said individuals apply for funding for wheelchair accessible ramps to get into their homes, or wheelchair lifts to get into their vehicles.

He added that sometimes the Kinsmen will get a vehicle to help move the residents around.

As well, funds raised by Telemiracle have gone towards significant donations in the community, such as the purchase of track lifts for Mont St. Joseph Home. 

“To see the money in action that we help raise at events like at the pancake breakfast or at the cabaret, really sort of shows us what it’s all about,” Reid said.

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