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May brings flowers, pancakes from Kiwanis Club

IRONWOOD - April showers bring May flowers, and May flowers bring Kiwanis pancakes? Well, maybe not, but the Ironwood Kiwanis Club has been hosting a Pancake Day fundraiser in May since at least the early 1950s, according to member Sue Murphy.

"No one around remembers before that," she said with a smile while sitting at a table selling tickets in the front hall of the Elk & Hound Thursday afternoon. "The Ironwood club dates back to 1925."

The event - planned for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. - was one of the club's four or five annual fundraisers, Murphy said.

The club uses the funds for its vario...