The sun rose bright and early over the town of Wareham Saturday – but it probably wasn’t up before the high school’s color guard, who began serving a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. sharp.

The color guard held its annual pancake breakfast with Santa in the school’s cafeteria. In addition to all-you-could-eat pancakes and other breakfast fixings, there were also raffles and games and coloring stations for attendees and their kids.

The color guard is a group of young men and women who perform to music using flags, sabres, and rifles.

Organizer and color guard director Lynn Morin said the breakfast is in its fifth year, following a one-year hiatus after the previous color guard director left. Morin said the breakfast “always goes over so well, especially with the children, because we have Santa Claus here.”

“We are pretty famous for our raffle table, actually,” Morin said. “A lot of people know we have a good raffle table.”

Morin said she estimated about 150 people had come in and out throughout the day, and that two hours into the four-hour event, they had raised about $250. She didn’t know how much the color guard raised, yet, but did say the admission prices had remained the same.

“It’s almost to the point where we have to raise the price, because [the price of] everything goes up,” Morin said. “But it’s a good fundraiser. And it’s good for the kids, because they get to talk with the younger kids, who come and ask ‘Oh, what’s color guard all about?’”

The money is used to send the color guard to competition, Morin said. She also said the organization had started a junior color guard, in which anyone as young as four years old may participate.

“We had 15 junior guard members over the season perform twice at halftime at football games, and we are taking those junior fall guard, and bringing them over to the winter guard,” Morin said. “They are going to travel with the high school kids, when the high school kids compete. They are going to perform … but they won’t compete, because I don’t want them to have the pressure.”