“Cheer for Pancakes” brings in over $4,400 for cancer patient . . .
On Saturday, March 23, the Westfield High School LEO Club held its seventh annual pancake breakfast for charity. Each year the LEOs select a local organization or individual that will be recipient of the funds raised at the breakfast. This year’s breakfast raised $4,407.09 – breaking the record of $4,100 set in 2017.
The LEO Club’s recipient this year, Katlyn Stevenson, is a WHS alumna and is also the head cheerleading coach. Katlyn is battling Stage 3 adrenal cancer, a rare form of cancer that affects only about one in 1 million cancer patients.
Special thanks goes to the WHS baseball team for showing up, as a team, to support Stevenson. The LEOs also want to thank all the people who took time out of their Saturday morning to attend the breakfast, including Westfield Mayor Andy Cook and several Noblesville Lions Club members.
In the past, the LEOs have donated pancake breakfast proceeds to help pay for uninsured counseling costs for the first responders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the Westfield Heart & Soul Free Clinic, Open Doors Food Pantry, “Elliott’s Army” (a Westfield student fighting cancer), two young men from Westfield (one a senior at the high school and the other a student at Ball State at the time) who had recently lost their single-parent mother and another Westfield student battling a brain tumor who needed help with medical bills.
About the LEO Club
The LEO Club (Leadership. Experience. Opportunity) is an extension of the Lions Club International and is designed to help students gain experience as active participants in their community. According to Jeff Larrison of the Westfield Lions Club, “The LEO Club is helping meet all kinds of needs here in Westfield. Besides raising money for charities, the LEOs assist the Westfield Lions Club with our fundraisers and service work.