The good times were rolling at the Pancake Supper fundraiser for the OUMC youth group. The Rec Hall was packed with families and friends stuffing down Ruth Toth’s famous buttermilk pancakes, with fruit and sausage on the side. An extra treat, new this year, was live music provided by the Ocracoke Jazz Society. Society members Lou Castro, Jubal Creech, Serge Gracovetsky, and April Trueblood gave the party some real New Orleans atmosphere.

The kids, with some adult supervision, decorated, cooked, served

Charlie Stern enjoyed his pancakes and visited with Kay Riddick.

and sold the suppers, and did the cleaning-up. They are raising money to help pay for their youth mission trip to Washington, D.C. in August. They hope this fundraiser will clear over $600 after expenses. If you're interested in where their mission will take them, check out http://thepilgrimage.org/

See some people in the audience that you don’t recognize? They are Scott Romeika and Cadence Anderson from Philadelphia, on their first trip to Ocracoke.

Little Isaac Vann was worn out by his first Mardi Gras.

They decided to come in February because they don’t like crowds, but when they saw the sign at the Community Store advertising the pancake supper, they couldn’t resist heading to the busiest place in town. 

Mac Kalna on griddle 2

Kevin Perez on griddle 3. There were five griddles going at once.

Servers Liam Caswell, Amanda Gaskins and Sydney Austin