MASSENA -- The Massena Rotary Club anticipate serving 1,400 meals at their 56th pancake breakfast on April 2.

The event will be at J.W. Leary Junior High.

“Everyone involved with our Rotary Club volunteers side-by-side with about 150 students from Massena Central’s sports teams and clubs as well as the Massena Boys and Girls Club. They are a huge help and they achieve valuable experience helping out as community service,” said Rotary Club president Eric Gustafson. “There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes preparing breakfast for approximately 1,400 children and adults. Chairperson Jim Venier has had his hands full coordinating and leading our team, ordering food in huge quantities, decanting 60 gallons of locally produced maple syrup, setting up and cleaning up for the event as well as getting tickets pre-sold out in the community.”

They will serve breakfast from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. A silent auction will go from 6 a.m. to noon.

There will be 80 volunteers working the event, which will include free shuttles from a parking area at Massena High School to the junior high.

The silent auction is the club’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds go to their community projects.

Last year’s breakfast and auction raised $30,000 for Massena-based organizations, the club said in a news release.

Tickets for the breakfast are available from any Rotarian. The club will sell them at Mountain Mart on South Main Street Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings until noon on April 1.

Cost is $7 for adults or $6 in advance and $5 for ages 6 to 12 and $4 in advance.