By BOB WITHERS For The Herald-Dispatch   Mar 3, 2019 

The club’s 60th anniversary Pancake Festival takes place from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at New Baptist Church, 610 28th Street.  Note the closing time is earlier than in previous years. Some of the “flippers” are getting – uh, well, more mature. Some of them have been there from the beginning, when the event was called “Pancake Jamboree” and the tickets cost a dollar.

Ray Abraham will be 91 by the time the event rolls around. It is estimated that he has flipped more than 120,000 pancakes since joining the group in 1967. As far as anyone knows, Abraham is the only person in West Virginia to have received the Golden Spatula Award.

“I’ve had a good time all these years,” Abraham says. “And I’m looking forward to having a good time this year, too.”  In addition to Abraham’s pancakes, visitors will enjoy the club’s link sausages – supplied by the S.S. Logan Packing Co. – and will have the choice of coffee, milk, soda pop or ice water.  The Kiwanians will again sell packages of their sausage.