CHESAPEAKE — Usually Saturday means it’s all quiet at Chesapeake Elementary School. But this weekend, the lights will turn on early, really early, as the Chesapeake-Proctorville-Rome Lions Club starts flipping the flapjacks for its annual pancake breakfast.

Saturday will be the 15th annual Lions Club breakfast whose proceeds go toward the eyeglass and eye exam projects the club is noted for.

“We will set up Friday evening and a lot of the Lions Club will do the set up work, getting the grills ready to go,” Bob Smith, club member said. “We will have two grills in the line and two people flipping pancakes.”

By 6 a.m. Saturday the members show up to start cooking before the first guests arrive by 7 a.m.

The club is expecting its usual crowd of between 300 and 400 members.

“It is always a really good crowd and you see the same people year after year,” Smith said.

Heading up this year’s breakfast committee is Chesapeake Mayor Dick Gilpin.

“This is a team effort,” he said. “We have some guys who cook and some guys who wash. It is just a big team effort.”

On the menu will be pancakes, sausage, orange juice, milk and coffee. Last year’s breakfast netted $2,000 for the club’s charitable work.

“We use it for our civic projects and donate some to other functions we deem worthy at the time,” Gilpin said. “This is a community function where people can come and sit down and talk to people across the table and see people they haven’t seen for a while.”

Breakfast begins at 7 a.m. and finishes up by 11 a.m. Tickets are $5 at the door.