What do you

get when you take 800 pounds of sausage, 600 pounds of pancake batter,

10,000 ounces of syrup and more than 100 gallons of coffee and mix it

up with a festival type atmosphere?

You get the

Kiwanis Pancake Saturday.

The Kiwanis

Club of Peachtree City is celebrating its ninth year of hosting the event

this year and the Pancake Saturday promises yet again to be one tasty

day. There will be clowns from the Peachtree City Fire Department promoting

safety, a barbershop quartet entertaining the crowds, face painting, balloons

and a child safety seat inspection from SAFEKIDS.

Uncle Rich

from 98.1 FM will be on hand Saturday with a live broadcast. He also will

give away tickets to the event all week on the radio.

There will

also be a number of pancake eating contests Saturday. The contests are

not based upon amounts of pancakes, but rather eating time. There will

be a "preacher challenge" this year where representatives from

a number of churches will compete to see who is the fastest, as well as

the annual youth challenge and Kiwanis challenge.

Kiwanis clubs

from all over are invited to attend and if they bring four or more members,

their club receives points and they compete in the challenge. Last year,

a dozen clubs participated and the Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City is looking

for a larger contest this year.

"We're

expecting 2,500 people this year," said Pancake Saturday Chairman

Butch Hill. "Last year, we were postponed a week due to the weather

and that hurt our attendance a little." The Pancake Saturday is a

fund-raiser for the Kiwanis Club, which supports a number of projects

in the community, including those directed at local youth, seniors and

battered women.

Club funds

purchase all of the supplies for Project DARE and 100 percent of all money

raised goes