The sun rising is as reliable as the annual hunters breakfast being served in Endicott.
The October 17 breakfast started at 5:30 a.m., far before dawn, with an all-you-can-eat spread of eggs, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, sausage, maple bars and beverages at the Endicott Food Center.
Tony Anderson, lifelong Endicott resident and owner of TNA Electric, said the breakfast has been going on for many years.
“They used to have the hunters breakfast a long time ago up at the school, when I was a kid,” Anderson said. “And then they kind of quit doing that.”
After that the breakfast was hosted in the store, he said, and its funds were used toward the Fourth of July fireworks celebration.
Anderson is there every year to help out his mom, Jenny Meyer, who is the owner of the Endicott Food Center, with the hunters breakfast.
The store has hosted the breakfast for at least 20 years, Meyer said. She helped with the breakfast when it was at the school, and started running the event once it was at the store.
“I got here just before 4:30,” Meyer said. “I did a lot of prep yesterday.”
Jason Woodrow, who visited from Seattle, went to the breakfast with his family, kids Makenzie and Isaiah and grandpa Jay, before their day of hunting.
“[Jay’s] father used to hunt out here,” Woodrow said. “So he hunts out here, and now we hunt out here.”
It was Woodrow’s first time at the breakfast, but he planned to come out next year.
“I think it’s great. I haven’t had biscuits and gravy in a long time,” he said. “This is actually a really good biscuits and gravy.”
Woodrow also ate sausage, and planned to try a bite of his son’s pancakes. He already drank coffee on his way to the breakfast, so he chose orange juice instead.
Whether or not his kids continue the tradition of hunting years from now is up to them, he said.
“I only got into it recently myself. So I’ve enjoyed it,” Woodrow said. “We will see if they enjoy it. This is their first time.”
While it’s his first time at the hunters breakfast, Woodrow has been at the store before for lunch and thinks Endicott is a fantastic little community.
Meyer enjoys Endicott as well.
“I’ve lived here 50 years. It’s small and I raised my kids here,” she said. “I don’t like the big cities.”
Meyer said while the breakfast originally started with hunters who would come in very early, now it is mostly town residents who come in around 8 a.m.
Dave Wingo, who lives in Endicott and is from Kitsap County, regularly turns out for the breakfasts. His favorite item is biscuits and gravy, which is also Anderson’s favorite.
Wingo is a big coffee drinker and takes it black.
“Don’t want to ruin it, put anything else,” he said.
Wingo likes living in Endicott because it is quiet, there isn’t too much traffic coming through.
Anderson and Wingo said everyone who lives in Endicott should turn out for breakfast.
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