Every summer, as part of the community-wide Old Fashioned Festival, the Newberg Noon Rotary Club joins with its sister club, the Newberg Early Birds Rotary Club, to sponsor a pancake breakfast in Memorial Park. The two-day event serves up all–you-can-eat pancakes (blueberries available, too!), eggs, sausage, orange juice and coffee and is one of the Club’s most popular events.

The annual feed began in 1966 while Joe Schneider was president and has continued every year since then. This event started as a club fundraiser with the original intent of funding youth programs. To make this event a success, the involvement of many Rotarians and community members is essential. Joe Schneider donated eggs for the first few years and enlisted the help of the Rotary sponsored Boy Scout Troop to crack them. The Boy Scouts surely did their best with the task but sometimes the Rotarians would have to check the Scout’s work to make sure there were no shells left behind.

The event is now as much of a community event as it is a fundraiser with thousands kicking off their day at the Old Fashioned Festival with Rotary Pancakes.

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The breakfast is formally known as the Joe Schneider Memorial Pancake Breakfast in honor of Newberg Rotary President, 1966-67. Joe was a pancake booster and for years Joe provided all the eggs for the breakfast as a donation. After his passing, his family continued that tradition for many years.