Snoqualmie firefighters flip for pancakes
July 21, 2010
By Laura Geggel
For many, it’s hard to resist pancakes, but it’s even harder to resist sitting in a bright-red fire engine.
“Everybody is a kid at heart,” said Catherine “Cat” Cotton, an EMT and volunteer with the Snoqualmie Fire Department. “It doesn’t matter what age you are, if you can sit in the fire truck, you’ll do it.”
Volunteer firefighter Kalen Privatsky (left) supervises as Lt. Kelly Gall flips pancakes for the Snoqualmie Firefighters Association annual pancake breakfast. Contributed
Cotton invited the Snoqualmie Valley community to the Snoqualmie Firefighters Association’s annual pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m. during Railroad Days Aug. 21 at the station, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway, Snoqualmie.
Firefighters will cook the all-you-can-eat breakfast: Pancakes and ham served with orange juice and Starbucks coffee.
Prices are $5 for adults, $3 for children; children under 5 are free.
Participants are invited to go through the engine and aid units.
They can also take pictures with Snoqualmie’s heroes and heroines: the firefighters themselves.
The association has a few other fundraising tricks up its sleeve.
It will offer $2 drawing tickets for local business items under $100 and a silent auction for more expensive items, which in past years have included overnight stays at the Salish Lodge, golfing at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge and gift certificates to the Snoqualmie Railroad Historical Society.
The association will sell T-shirts for $20 and bicycle helmets for the discounted rate of $8 at Railroad Days and the breakfast, Cotton said.
Proceeds benefit the nonprofit association, which supports the Snoqualmie Fire Department, an organization composed of both career and volunteer firefighters.
The association recently used its funds to buy one of Snoqualmie Fire Department’s original engines, a 1939 restored Chevrolet truck. It shows the engine at local events.
“It’s kind of a source of pride for us to give it back to the community,” Cotton said.
The association also uses its money to buy extra medical equipment and to help with fire engine modifications. In addition, the money pays for registration for the annual Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Firefighter Stairclimb at the Columbia Tower in downtown Seattle.
“We help out with things the city is not necessarily able to budget for,” Cotton said.
She said both career and volunteer firefighters take pride in their work, from putting out fires to flipping pancakes.
“The community tends to look up to firefighters and the job that they do,” Cotton said. “We say everyone else is running away from the burning building and we’re running in.”
Laura Geggel: 392-6434, ext. 221, or lgeggel@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.
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