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Pancake day began 75 years ago as a way for local manufacturers to thank their employees.

That spirit of giving back to the community laid the foundation for a full on festival with a pageant, a parade, and endless stacks of pancakes.

Pancake day is about friends and family just as much as it is about the pancakes and the sirup.

It's about getting together with people you haven't seen for years.

You're your schoolmates, your friends, your family.

The the cousin that went overseas.

That's finally back.

As my dad said, it's a tradition.

Tyler, you have to flip pancakes at least once.

And I can proudly say I've done it about 4 or 5 times.

We have quite the assembly line of griddles.

there are 21 griddles going at any given time.

About 100 volunteers under the pancake tent, and they are, returning volunteers that have it down pat, and they can get thousands of people through that tent every hour.

It's really cool to see who's volunteering, because there are kids as young as nine years old that are helping run batter.

There are people that come back just for Pancake Day each year because their family loved it, and they help out Pancake Day.

As a kid, you're thinking about pancakes and even pancakes as a dog.

When you're volunteering, you're watching the flying all the way around the square and you're like, well, it's going to be a while.

Well, the family's been coming for all 75 years, and I've been 69 of them.

This is our homecoming every year, our annual celebration.

Like every town.

I've already seen, like, eight people this morning from 50 years ago.

The pancakes are free.

But beyond that, a lot of our activities are free.

So the goal is if a family wants to come up here for a whole day and spend some time downtown together, they don't have to spend money if they don't want to.

So I think it's just such a positive atmosphere and a celebration of a small community, that it really makes people.

Want to come back year after year.

Who doesn't like pancakes?

It's like everybody loves pancakes.

Hey, you know how that happens.