Santa Claus is coming to breakfast, and there are plenty of opportunities to sit down to a meal with the jolly old elf.

Breakfast with Santa events are scheduled throughout the area in the weeks leading up to Christmas. The Geneva Lions Club is celebrating its first such event from 7 to 11 a.m. Dec. 8 at Geneva High School, 416 McKinley Ave. The cost is $5 for all-you-can-eat pancakes.

Lions Club member Dan Joniak said he remembered participating in a Santa breakfast when he was in high school, and he enjoyed working with St. Nick. He thought others might embrace the idea, too.