Kent Hospital will partner for the third year in a row with the Rotary Club of Warwick to host a traditional May Breakfast on Friday, May 1 from 6:30 to 10 a.m. The proceeds will benefit Rotary charities.

Kent previously hosted the Rotary May Breakfast in the mid-1980s through ’90s and is pleased to again partner with the club to partake in a Rhode Island tradition started in 1867 at the Old Quaker Meeting House in the Oaklawn section of Cranston. 

This year’s May Breakfast includes scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries, French toast with warm maple syrup, oatmeal, johnnycakes, juice and coffee. Tickets for the breakfast may be purchased at the door for $8 per person, from all Warwick Rotarians, or at the Warwick Beacon office located at 1944 Warwick Avenue, Warwick. 

The Rotary Club of Warwick is part of Rotary International whose purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian services locally and throughout the world.

Local beneficiaries include Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center, Warwick Boys & Girls Clubs, RI Family Shelter and Honor Flight RI, the Warwick schools 3rd grade dictionary project and annual scholarship funds for one senior at four Warwick high schools; Hendricken, Pilgrim, Toll Gate and Warwick Vets.