One more Youth Day has come and gone

Was this year’s Youth Day a success? I guess it depends on which side of the curb you are standing. From my point of reference, the Rotary Pancake/Sausage Breakfast, was a huge success. If you were hoping for a longer parade, maybe not so good for your team. I heard that the alumni baseball game was well-played, as were the games at the park. There have been 85 Youth Days and this one won’t go down as the best, or the worst. I’m just glad that people are still stepping up to keep Youth Day alive. Society changes as does Winters. Unfortunately, I didn’t see much of this year’s activities. It always takes longer to clean up after the breakfast than it does to set it up. By the time we were locking up the Community Center and heading down Main Street to see the parade, people were already walking back to their cars. I had heard that there weren’t that many parade entries, and I guess the rumor was true.

Like most fundraisers, the breakfast wouldn’t take place if it weren’t for the support of local merchants. The Buckhorn and Putah Creek Café, every year, ask their distributors to donate a lot of the food and beverages to the Rotary breakfast. As I was stressing out over finding where all of the supplies for the breakfast were delivered, I watched as Emarie VanGalio quietly went about her job and pointed me in the right direction. When the syrup didn’t show up, she found me enough to calm me down.

On Saturday morning, at 5 a.m., I realized that I hadn’t picked up the butter. I was wondering how early Emarie got up. I waited until 6 before I started texting, and she told me the butter was in the refrigerator at the Buckhorn and that the kitchen crew would be there before 7 a.m. to let me in. Our breakfast starts at seven, and, luckily, Chris Jones had enough at home to get us started. I supervise one, sometimes two, breakfasts a year and it is nerve-racking. I looked at Emarie and asked her how she does this, every day? She laughed. There are jobs that I don’t like; sheetrocking and roofing come to mind, now I’m adding