Pancake
Breakfast
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Saturday
morning, October 27th, 2007 |
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We
had a great turnout. 191 people showed up for our Pancake
Breakfast this year! Just look at all the cars! Our eight
cooks did a great job on the pancakes and sausages! |
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photos
by Mike Sentovich |
(from left to right): Vic Westling, Sharon O'Brien, Kaaren
Perry, Neal Anderson.
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Charlie Austin & Jerry King got everyone to park close
together so that we could fit a lot of cars in the parking lot
by pond E. |
back) Hal Sheakley & Steve Perry
(front) Tom Croom, Vic Westling, Al Baumann.
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As
usual, we had a great selection of used nature books for sale,
thanks to the generous book donations from our members. Jan
Gaffney and her helpers at the Book Sales Table sold 218 books
to 72 customers, making $670.90 on the day of the event. |
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photo by Mike
Sentovich |
photo by Mike
Sentovich |
photo by Fresia
Escalona |
| left, front to rear) Jean Brandt, Barbara Sentovich, Jan Gaffney,
Elena Fettig |
Hal Sheakley mixing the pancake batter with that handy electric
mixer. |
Jan Gaffney, Sherry Bass, Star Howard, Elena Fettig at the
Book Sale Table. |
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The
pancake batter was mixed in large pails (see above) using
an electric drill with a long paddle attached. The pancakes
were cooked on large griddles and the cooks did a great job
squeezing the batter on to the griddles so that the pancakes
were evenly spaced, and then turning them at just the right
moment to make sure they were done to perfection. Everyone
said those pancakes were light and fluffy and delicious! Sharon
O'Brien is working on the pancakes in the photos below. |
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photos
by Mike Sentovich |
| Sharon is manipulating the batter dispenser. Vic Westling
is cooking pancakes next to her.. |
Sharon is flipping the pancakes
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Sharon is admiring her evenly spaced pancakes on the griddle.
Steve Perry is working next to her with the sausages. |
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| We're
lucky to finally have a company here in Orange County which
has a great selection of scopes and binoculars just for birders.
Optics4Birding recently opened their new store in the southern
section of Irvine. Wild Birds Unlimited has a store not far
away in Mission Viejo for anyone interested in wild birds and
especially for people who like to feed them. |
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photo by Fresia
Escalona |
photo by Mike
Sentovich |
photo by Fresia
Escalona |
Optics4Birding displays their birding scopes
on the back porch of the Duck Club.
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Bruce Aird and Steve Sosensky from Optics4Birding brought
lots of binoculars and scopes for people to try out.
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Dave Brandt from Wild Birds Unlimited brought bird feeders
and wild bird. He answered lots of questions about how to attract
wild birds to feeders and to gardens. |
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are more pictures of some of our fabulous cooks for the Pancake
Breakfast. They did a great job working together as a team and
producing a delicious breakfast for us. |
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photos
by Mike Sentovich |
Scott Thomas cooking sausages.
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Steve Perry, Hal Sheakley, and Tom Croom |
Steve Perry, Hal Sheakley, and Tom Croom |
| Scott
Thomas coordinated the Pancake Breakfast. He organized the entire
event, did the food shopping, supervised the layout for the
breakfast, made arrangements with the Irvine Ranch Water District
to display the Pancake Breakfast banners and to use their griddles,
got the Pancake Breakfast supplies out of storage, and helped
with practically every aspect of our event. His wife, Cheryl,
worked hand and hand with him for the event. I think you'll
agree that they both did an outstanding job! |
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The
interior of the Duck Club was full of people eating their
pancake breakfasts. Janet Baumann and her set up crew did
a nice job Friday night before the breakfast. They decorated
the tables so that the room looked warm and hospitable and
organized the breakfast supplies so that the meal ran smoothly
the next morning. |
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photo by Mike
Sentovich |
photo by Fresia
Escalona |
photo by Mike
Sentovich |
| Al Baumann making announcements in the Duck Club. |
The interior of the Duck Club during our Pancake Breakfast. |
Jim and Sylvia Gallagher eating their pancake breakfast inside
the Duck Club. |
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More people pictures — |
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photo by
Mike Sentovich |
photo by Kaaren
Perry |
photo by Kaaren
Perry |
| Helping themselves to the pancake condiments |
Joan McCauley, Lois Jones & Betty Purdy by the check-in
table.
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.Janet & Al Baumann, Peer & Nancy Swan
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photo by
Mike Sentovich |
photo by
Mike Sentovich |
photo by Fresia
Escalona |
Sylvia Gallagher at her scope station
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A Bird Walk with Linda Oberholtzer and Teresa Cullen.
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Catherine Bonanno, Nancy Kenyon, Joan McCauley, & Carolyn
Cooper working at the check-in table. |
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photo by
Mike Sentovich |
photo by
Mike Sentovich |
photo by
Mike Sentovich |
| Tom Croom at work on the pancakes |
Breakfast in the Duck Club |
Vic Westline & Al Baumann cooking |
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To
- Fresia Escalona, Kaaren Perry, and Mike Sentovich -
Thanks so much for sharing your Pancake Breakfast photographs
with us! |
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| To
- Scott Thomas - THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING TO COORDINATE OUR
PANCAKE BREAKFAST THIS YEAR! YOU DID A GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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I
would also like to thank our wonderful volunteers who worked
together to make our event a success:
Neal Anderson, Charlie Austin, Sherry Bass, Al & Janet Baumann,
Catherine Bonanno, Diane Bonanno, Julie Brodhag, Carolyn Cooper,
Tom Croom, Teresa Cullen, Elena Fettig, Jan Gaffney, Sylvia
Gallagher, Linda Hallopoff, Tommye Hite, Star Howard, Trude
Hurd, Sarah Jayne, Mary Joseph, Jerry King, Merri Levy, Marcia
& Don Marlowe, Wanda McCarger, Joan McCauley, Gretchen McCausland,
Sally Menzel, Jay & Marquita Miller, Karly Moore, Susan
Munson, Helen Nicholas, Sharon O’Brien, Chris Obaditch,
Linda Oberholtzer, Joan Olafson, Steve & Kaaren Perry, Barbara
Sentovich, Hal Sheakley, Margo Stuart, Scott & Cheryl Thomas,
Harmony Upton, Donelda Warhurst, Vic Westling, Ann Zemer.
—Nancy Kenyon |
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