Megan Page is the general manager at Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, but her influence in the community reaches far beyond food quality and customer service. Megan also changes lives. At the auctions we host frequently at Patrick’s—to benefit local nonprofits or community members battling an illness or crisis—Megan is there, front and center, making sure everything runs smoothly. And when it’s time for Patrick’s Pub Mania, a fundraiser for the Lakes Region Children’s Auction, Megan s

If you saw a woman knitting last year while out in a restaurant—or while boating, or on a bus, or in a doctor’s office—it was probably Judi Rogato. She had her needles in her hands everywhere she went, even on a Caribbean cruise. “Who knits a hat on a cruise in the Caribbean?” Judi says with a laugh. “Me!” Judi’s goal at first was to create 25 hats to sell for $25 apiece to raise money for Patrick’s Pub Mania and her team, The Diving Ducks, to benefit the 2018 Greater Lakes R

When Will Swart was first invited to take part in Pub Mania as a team captain by Patrick’s co-owner Allan Beetle three years ago, Will was sure his 24 teammates could each raise the suggested $100. Made up of employees and riders associated with the Laconia Harley Davidson dealership in Meredith, where Will is general manager, team Laconia Harley Iron Butts felt great about the idea of raising $2,400 to benefit the Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction. Will remembers that

In 1993, Lisa Cornish was supporting a family of four. She worked a steady job but felt the pinch of need. Lisa earned too much money then to qualify for welfare—but not enough to make ends meet. It was particularly difficult to afford winter clothing and Christmas presents for her 16-month-old daughter Anna and her 7-year-old stepson Mark. She reached to St. Vincent De Paul for winter jackets and boots for each of the children and received the clothing as well as a box of to

It began as a tag-on event to Laconia Athletic & Swim Team’s Cycle Mania fundraiser for the Children’s Auction, and now, nine years later, Patrick’s Pub Mania is billed as the “World’s Greatest Barstool Challenge” by Patrick’s co-owner and event referee Allan Beetle. This because Pub Mania raised $47,000 for the Children’s Auction during the initial Pub Mania event in 2009 and raised the bar to a record $303,630 last year for a total of $1.6 million. “A few years back we revi

When Kate Flaherty moved back to New Hampshire from Massachusetts in 2015, she was drawn back into the fold by her longtime friends at Patrick’s as a volunteer for the Pub Mania Shuffle and the Pub Mania event itself. These days, Kate’s face is often the first one that new members of Pub Mania teams see when they arrive in the pub parking lot to Shuffle on a Wednesday evening in the spring or fall, and it’s Kate who offers the welcome and draws people in. “Every time we do a