It’s time for Page Two: News that might not make the front page for Wednesday December 10, 2025.
Saturdays on Colony Days began with the Lions Club breakfast for over thirty years. They used to call it a “Pancake Breakfast.” Not anymore. It outgrew that term years ago.
Now it’s the “Breakfast Buffet.” It’s at both Colony Days and Colony Christmas.
You can still get pancakes, but the Breakfast Buffet includes scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, hashbrowns, fresh-baked biscuits-and-gravy, coffee, and orange juice.
And BACON! Ninety pounds of bacon according to Lions Club Secretary Carol Kenley.
The Breakfast Buffet sponsor is almost as comforting as the food. You can see and feel the Lions Club presence at many Palmer High School sports events. Lions in yellow vests greet the fans and take tickets.
The Lions Club supports the Food Bank, Kids Kupboard, and other charities. And they have a mission. They also screen children for vision issues. The Lions take their equipment to elementary schools. They can detect six eye diseases with that equipment. Parents find out early about budding vision problems thanks to the Lions.
Work on the Breakfast Buffet starts early. All the shopping is done by Friday. They do some prep work, too. The Moose Lodge fills with the comforting smells of fresh biscuits and sizzling bacon early Saturday morning.
Kenley says about 30 volunteers shop, cook, and serve breakfast.
The breakfast volunteers keep busy, but they always have time to chat with the customers. Kenley sees a lot of return customers. “It’s part of their Colony Christmas celebration to come to the Lion’s Breakfast.”
The breakfast creates fond memories. Kenley remembers one boy who really liked the homemade raspberry jam on his pancakes. He came back to the line for seconds. But he didn’t want more pancakes. He just wanted more jam.
Enjoy the Colony Christmas breakfast this Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Moose Lodge on 1136 South Cobb Street. The cost is $10 for adults and $7 for kids.
Would you like to find out more about the Lion’s Club? Find them on Facebook. And, they meet at noon every Tuesday at the Salvation Army Building on the Palmer Wasilla Highway.
The open house on the proposed Jonesville Shooting Range and Park is tomorrow from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Sutton Elementary School Gym.
Tyson Davis plays the Palmer Alehouse unplugged tomorrow night at 6 p.m. in the upstairs lounge.
On Friday listen to Trappers Tales with Bret Bohn at 6 p.m. at the Palmer Alehouse.
All Mat-Su Borough School District schools are open today with transportation services operating.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough has declared a disaster for the December 5 – 9, 2025 high winds. The borough experienced wind gusts of at least 89 mph, and winds gusted in excess of 50 mph from Friday, December 5, through Tuesday, December 9. There were many reports of hurricane-force wind gusts damaging homes, vehicles, and other property. We
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