Submitted by Rob Hiscott
Nearly 200 breakfasts were served to customers at our final Rotary community Pancake Breakfast of 2025 at Rotary Pavilion next to Lion’s Head Beach on a beautiful Sunday morning of Labour Day weekend! Over the course of four Rotary Pancake Breakfasts held in 2025, we served nearly 900 breakfasts to the community!
Rotary thanks everyone who came out for a delicious ‘Made in Canada’ Pancake Breakfast making these events a huge success! We thank our ‘Friends of Rotary’ who helped out throughout 2025 at these breakfast events with preparing food on our new grills and serving food on the customer line!
We are especially appreciative of our Pancake Breakfast individual and business sponsors who generously donate product and money to defray Rotary’s costs of putting on these events, allowing us to return more of the proceeds back to the community of Northern Bruce Peninsula! Our 2025 Pancake Breakfast sponsors include Jane & Dr. Dave Thomson, Tiffany Embleton & Dan Jorritsma, Barbara Dirckx (RE/MAX Grey-Bruce Realty Inc.), Garden in Thyme Country Market, Russell and Abby Miners (Miners’ Maple Products) and Leroy Dirckx (Atlas World Real Estate Corp.).
More photos from this latest and past Rotary community Pancake Breakfast events can be found at https://www.rotarynbp.org/photoalbums/pancake-breakfast-august-31-2025.
Third Annual Oktoberfest September 27!
Later this month (Saturday, September 27th from noon to midnight), your local Rotary Club and Tagwerk Bier will be hosting the third annual Oktoberfest celebration at the Rotary Hall! Oktoberfest-themed food (sausages, currywurst, sauerkraut, pretzels and strudel) will be available throughout both afternoon (12:00 noon to 6:30 PM) and evening (7:00 PM to 12:00 midnight) portions of the event, along with Tagwerk biers, ciders, wines, coolers and soft drinks (with drinks available for purchase from the beer tent outside Rotary Hall during the afternoon, and at the bar inside Rotary Hall throughout the evening). The evening portion of Oktoberfest will feature live entertainment by the local Paul Williamson Band, the very popular beer stein holding contest, some polka music, and lots of fun!
Oktoberfest will begin at noon on Saturday with a mule-drawn, beer cask-laden wagon arriving at the Rotary Hall for a traditional ceremony of ‘tapping the cask’ by Mayor Milt McIver of ‘Oktoberfest Draught’ Tagwerk Bier!
Tickets for the evening-portion will cost $25.00, and can be purchased ahead of time from Rotarians or through Eventbrite at lionsheadoktoberfest.eventbrite.ca – get your tickets early as this will likely be a sell-out event based on the past two years. Net proceeds from this event will go to the Rotary Hall Building Fund, towards refurbishing our beloved Rotary Hall!
Hope to see you there! If you or your business may be interested in becoming a sponsor for our annual Oktoberfest events at Rotary Hall, please contact us at nbprotary@gmail.com for more information!
