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Rotary Club 2007 Christmas in Columbia Breakfast a success

A roster of those involved in the traditional Christmas in Columbia below
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Diners arrived early for the annual event, an all you care to eat breakfast of sausage and scrambled eggs, hot coffee and orange juices, and those hot biscuits with sawmill gravy or butter, jelly, syrup, or sorghum molasses, all for $5.00.

The hall for the breakfast feast was in the Columbia Baptist Church Annex. For as long as there has been a Christmas in Columbia, the Rotary Club Breakfast has been the first choice of festival goers as a staging area and strategizing the day's forays.

Reports in Downtown Columbia were that the Rotary Club, for one of the first times in the history of the breakfast, had no left-over food.


Hunter Durham listed the following basic menu, along with the Rotary stalwarts responsible for various items:
  • Biscuits from the hands of the master, Edgar Troutman, this year with helpers Lori and Steve Sargent.
  • Sawmill gravy, by J.D. Zornes
  • Sausage by Hunter Durham, Kelly Bonifer
  • Eggs, scrambled better than Nero Wolf, by Wallace Bowman, Doug McCammish, from eggs cracked by George Kolbenschlag, and mixed by Phil Hanna
A group floating cooks and gofers included Kay Bowman, Dr. Max Downey, Dick Fitzpatrick, Ted Caldwell, Ellen Zornes, Mike Hubbuch, Bill Julian.

The hall for the breakfast feast was in the Columbia Baptist Church Annex.

Reports in Downtown Columbia were that the Rotary Club, for one of the first times in the history of the breakfast, had no left-over food.
Needed changes, additions, corrections are welcome -CM


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2007 Christmas in Columbia Moment: Master biscuit makers



2007-12-01 - Columbia Baptist Church - Photo By Ed Waggener.
GREAT BISCUITS, GREAT TRADITION: Rotarians Steve Sargent, left, and Edgar Troutman have been cooking ovenloads of biscuits at the Rotary Breakfast this morning. It is a reassuring moment every year to know that he is still at the top of his biscuit making game. Edgar Troutman has a reputation for making great biscuits, and Steve Sargent was doing all he could to learn how it's done. The Rotary Breakfast at the Columbia Baptist Church is one of the busiest places in town this morning. They serving an all you care to eat breakfast of sausage and scrambled eggs, hot coffee and orange juices, and those hot biscuits with sawmill gravy or butter, jelly, syrup, or sorghum molasses, all for $5.00. Serving time will continue until noon today, Saturday, December 1, 2007.

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