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With between three and four hundred people expected for breakfast, Debbie Rogers, chair of the St. Mary-St Cecilia Pancake Breakfast fund raiser didn’t have a lot of time to chat. 

“We’re just delighted with the turn out,” Rogers said, as hungry families and friends poured through the doors of the Morrisburg Legion, Branch 48, on Sunday morning, February 10. “This fund raiser, organized and run by the Parent Council, is one of our big events of the year. We have many parents and teachers out to help, and a number of St. Mary-St. Cecilia students are working as servers and clean up crew.”

Several area businesses helped off set the cost of the food.

This year’s Pancake Breakfast, the 12th one the council has organized, raised $5,500 towards the purchase of a new SmartBoard for the school.

“Ultimately we would like to see that every second class room has a SmartBoard,” Rogers explained. 

SmartBoards provide cutting edge technology for the classroom, allowing teachers to use computer programs which permit students, with all ranges of abilities, to interact directly with the white board as they learn.

There were also a raffle (principal Joy Martel was manning the table), a silent auction and kid friendly games like guessing the number of candies in a jar.

“We were very grateful to the businesses and individuals in the community who provided us with items for our auction,” Rogers said. “And it was great to see all ages coming out for breakfast.”

The funds raised from the breakfast will also be put  towards school trips and school events.

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The US destroyer Edson is pictured as it enters the locks at Iroquois on Thursday, August 2 at about 9:40 a.m. Heading for Bay City, Michigan, the Edson was decommissioned in 1988, and the following year became a museum ship at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York. She was returned to Navy lay-up in 2004, and this past spring it was decided she would again become a museum ship, this time at Bay City. Named for Major General Merritt “Red Mike” Edson (1897-1955), the Edson was built in 1958. She initially served in the West Pacific/Far East particularly off the coast of Vietnam. She served as a plane guard for aircraft carriers and participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire support missions during the Vietnam War. The Edson participated in the evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. Cleared to begin her journey to Michigan in mid-July, she entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence on July 25. She passed Morrisburg at about 7 a.m. last Thursday and was expected to reach her final destination on the weekend. She was towed by the Tug Colonel and the Ecosse was on the stern.

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All three fire stations in the South Dundas Fire Department held open houses on Saturday, October 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. complete with tours, free souvenirs and barbecue munchies. Fire Chief Chris McDonough said the open houses were a a great success and that he’s “looking forward to doing it again next year.” At the Williamsburg location the local children were having fun climbing into, out of, and on the fire trucks. From all appearances, they were loving every minute of it. 

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