By Lion, Milt Fox, For The Mountain Times
Happy New Year to all of you from the Mt. Hood Lions Club. Let’s hope we have a great 2025.
Christmas Toy Drive Dinner!
Thanks to all of you for attending our Christmas Toy Drive Dinner the evening of Saturday December 7. We had a great turnout with just over 160 in attendance. There were lots of toys contributed for the local children. Our dining room has never looked more beautiful. The dinner was wonderful, prepared by Lion Chef Craig Calvert and his crew of very capable and hard working Lions. This year’s event was Co-Chaired by Lions Sarah O’Dowd and Molly Espenel, who along with all of us at the club offer special thanks to St. Michael’s Church for the use of their kitchen equipment. We also thank Welches Clackamas County Bank, Welches Mountain Building Supply, Coffee House 26, and the Whistle Stop Tavern for the sale of our dinner tickets, thank you all.
Donations were also made to the folks with the Hoodland Community Christmas Basket Program.
Red Cross Blood Drive:
We had a fair turnout at our December 14 Red Cross Blood Drive, but we had several no shows. Maybe December isn’t the best month to have this activity.
Bingo!
Please remember that Bingo will resume again on Friday January 17, 2025, and continue running until mid May 2025. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and Bingo starts at 7:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!
From our Health Committee!
We are hoping to offer another Red Cross Blood Drive in the not too distant future. More to come.
We are working with FemForward to bring their Mobile Health Clinic to our club again monthly in 2025. Information about their services can be found on their website. Making appointments can be made through the website, by texting or calling. They would continue with one Friday a month depending on the need since they can see up to 14 patients in a day. We hope to start as early as this January (weather permitting) so watch for our advertising.
There are also several other health-related programs that our Health Committee is looking into providing for our community.
More to come in 2025:
Our Lion President David Anderson has promised us that we’re going to have a very busy 2025 with lots of projects to work on. Looking at our parking lot we’re in the chips with lots to do. Wonder how many there are? Maybe an idea for a raffle? Oh, I don‘t know. But where’s Lion Dave? I’ll bet he is resting up thinking about who he might want to pardon.
It’s Great to be a Lion!