One of Wallowa County’s best community breakfasts is coming up Saturday with the 4th Annual Day Before Mother’s Day Breakfast to benefit Safe Harbors. Safe Harbors is a domestic violence shelter in Wallowa County entirely supported through grants, local benefit events and private fundraising by individuals.

Every year for the past four years, local men have served up a breakfast and an example of how real men feel about domestic violence – and raised approximately $1,000 for the shelter each time.

“The breakfast is great exposure for Safe Harbor, but more important is the fact that men are putting this whole program on,” said co-organizer Chris Geyer of Lostine. “Until men take responsibility for their actions domestic violence isn’t going to end. That was our motive or mission: men stepping up to encourage men to take responsibility for their actions.”

The group of good-hearted men who put on the event come from every walk of life and every faith and philosophy. And though it’s a serious cause, it’s not a grim event. These men know how to have fun.

“It’s a fabulous morning,” said Wendy McDaniel, executive director of Safe Harbors. “Every year I’ve gone and I’ve taken my mother and my daughter and the rest of the family and the fellowship is great.”

Fellowship is what the event is all about, organizers agree, and raising money for a very worthy charity is merely the obvious byproduct of Wallowans coming together.

The breakfast will begin 7:30 a.m. and continue to 10 a.m., May 10, at Community Connections, 702 NW 1st, in Enterprise. Suggested donation is $10 per person or $25 per family. Breakfast includes pancakes, egg dishes, meatless egg dishes, bacon, ham, sausage, fresh fruit, potatoes, juice, biscuits and gravy, coffee and tea.

The event is sponsored by Lear’s Main Street Restaurant, the Wallowa Chieftain, Joseph Family Market, Shell’s Mercantile, M Crow and Company, the Dollar Stretcher, Safeway, and the Wallowa Peace and Justice Network.