(Arnolds Park)– Arnolds Park-Okoboji Fire and Rescue will be holding a major fundraising event this weekend, in conjunction with Walleye Weekend. Chief Chris Yungbluth says they’ll be holding their annual pancake feed Friday evening and Saturday…
“So it’s our 47th annual fundraiser. This Friday night we’ll be serving from 5:00 until 8:00 and Saturday we’ll be serving from 7:00 until Noon. Kind of the same program that we do every year for a fundraiser. I mean if you’ve got success you might as well keep up with it, right? We’ve got grilled sausage that the firemen will be grilling up fresh throughout each of the services. And the Boy Scouts from Milford will be bringing their famous pancakes up to serve to you, and man they are pretty good stuff as well. And it comes with a drink. It’s pretty reasonable priced, adults are just six bucks and kids are three dollars if they’re under 12 anyway.”
Yungbluth says some of the proceeds will go toward equipment for the dive team and fire department…
“We have a couple of pieces of equipment that will help us deploy a little bit faster and that’s where the money is going to go to this year, and then also we kind of contribute toward personal equipment on our fire side as well. It kind of supports a lot of different projects throughout the year and helps us to keep up with all the things that are required of us to make sure that we keep our people safe and that’s kind of our most important asset.”
Yungbluth adds the event will be taking place at the fire station on Highway 71 in Arnolds Park. He says you’ll need to take an alternate routes to get there due to road construction on the highway…
“To get to us you’ll have to turn early either on Broadway which is the only way you can go if you’re headed northbound on ’71 and kind of sneak around. We’re going to try to have some sort of signage at the corner there that directs you where you need to turn onto Hinshaw there to get to us, and then you’ll have to turn at, I believe it’s Ackley there just past The Ritz if you’re going to be coming from the other direction and you can sneak around to us. We should have the whole parking lot for the city hall available to park in and then some street parking and then there’s an empty lot next to us so we’re hoping to have plenty of parking spaces for folks.”
In the event you can’t make it this weekend, Yungbluth says they’re always very appreciative of monetary donations.
