Wilcox, Endicott crews serve

Hunters were well fed this weekend and had their choice of where to go for breakfast.

Saturday morning hunters and townspeople enjoyed breakfast at the Endicott Food Center.

Organizer Jenny Meyer hovered over the stove cooking scrambled eggs and said about 65 hunters and local residents were served Saturday morning. She said money raised from the breakfast goes to the cost of Endicott’s Christmas fireworks.

Tony Anderson flipped pancakes and Tia Langston was the self-proclaimed “maple bar queen,” and also mixed the scrambled eggs ingredients.

Meyer said although the breakfast is advertised for hunters, “it’s mostly for the townsfolk.”

At Wilcox Grange Sunday morning, eight people were cooking breakfast and they had served about 40 people early that morning, according to head cook Bonnie Lyle. They were expecting after-church customers and planned to remain open until 3 p.m.

Proceeds are used to maintain the grange hall that was built in 1908.

This is only the second year Wilcox has served a hunters’ breakfast.

“We needed a fundraiser because the grange hall takes a lot of maintenance,” Lyle said. “This is still new for this grange. It takes a couple of years to get your feet on the ground, but it gets better and better.”

“Everyone who comes enjoys themselves,” Lyle said. “They like to hear each other’s stories.”