Mountain Roar: December 2025

Christmas Toy Drive Dinner! “POLAR EXPRESS”

We hope you’ll come out to this year's Christmas Toy Drive Dinner and make it the best ever! The dinner will be held Saturday December 6th. Happy Hour begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner served at 6:00 p.m., price at the door is $30.00.Special presale tickets are available for $25.00 at Welches Clackamas County Bank, Welches Mountain Building Supply, Coffee, The Brightwood Tavern, Mt. Hood Cannabis, and the Whistle Stop Tavern. Lion Chef Craig Calvert says that we will be enjoying a meal consisting of Roast top sirloin of beef, ham, and all the trimmings. This year’s Christmas Toy Drive is chaired by Lion Marlyne Casley.

Please bring a new unwrapped toy for local kids and join us for this delicious dinner, helping others in need. We will also be collecting nonperishable food items for the Hoodland Community Christmas Basket Program. Thank you for supporting this Mt. Hood Lions project, a community tradition since 1996. 

Bingo!

Thanks to our many Bingo players and a hard working crew of dedicated Lions.  We have enjoyed a very good fall Bingo season, with 65 players last Friday night, November 7th. There will be no Bingo during the month of December, but we will be up and running again beginning Friday, January  9th, 2026. We thank all of you for supporting this very important Lions Club fundraiser. 

Red Cross Blood Drives!

We have scheduled 2 Red Cross Blood Drives. The first is scheduled for Saturday February 21st 9:00 a.m. to 2:00p.m. The second is Saturday April 18th, 9:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. 

Mt Hood Lions Club 50/50 Raffle!

We have 2000 Raffle tickets for sale! Tickets are $5 each and are available at Lions Club events or ask any Lion! We may also be asking if some of our usual business outlets would be willing to sell some of these tickets. We will have three winners: 1st prize is 25% of the gross proceeds, 2nd prize is 15% of the gross proceeds, and 3rd prize is 10% of the gross proceeds. A special drawing will take place at our Mexican Dinner on May 16th, 2026.  The proceeds of this raffle will go to help support our 2026 Swimming Lessons program held at Camp Arrah Wanna. Lion David Bouy is our Swimming Lessons Chairman.  

Thanks to all of you for your continued support of the Mt. Hood Lions Club and its many fundraisers and community projects.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Mt. Hood Lions Club. 

It’s great to be a Lion!