Ride all night for $35 at Lions Club Carnival by the Sea- event pays for emergency room toys for kids, scholarships, eye care, Christmas dinner and more!
The giant ferris wheel, the cotton candy, the Fort Bragg-Mendocino Lions Club’s annual Carnival by the Sea is on.
The event is sponsored by the Skunk Train which lends its property, the most spacious location the carnival has ever been in.
The event started Thursday night. Lions volunteers saw a lot of adults coming in and buying the tickets for the kids, then enjoying the food. Many left with cotton candy too. For $35 you get all the rides you want for the whole night! Too old or grumpy to ride Entrance is free, with a variety of food booths.
Among the programs that the Carnival by the Sea helps fund for the Fort Bragg Lions Club is the emergency room toy program. Kids who come into the ER get fabulous toys such as giant teddy bears and a dinosaur with a purse that plays music. While one might imagine the emergency room is something used by old people, you’d be missing a lot. There are children every day brought in the ER for high fevers, falling out of trees and serious accidents and illnesses. Those kids are often terrified by what is happening. I can tell you from having been there, the toys the Lions Club pay for make a huge difference. Kids grasp hard to a big bear or zebra. (sorry no Lions!) .This program costs the Lions Club OVER $6000.00 per year. (My wife Linda have a great time overseeing the bears for this program.)
Another program is the Christmas Senior Dinner. The Lions give their Christmas to cooking turkeys and now with the Redwood Coast Senior Center, delivering meals to 400+ shut-in seniors. There are also generous scholarships given out every year, the club does eye care and the annual Easter Egg Hunt. The annual Haunted House also helps pay for the many charity programs, and the Lions do the work!
The Lions need your support and encouragement. Im in the club and I invite you to be my guest and check it out. You will be impressed at all the club does.
Brass Ring Entertainment provides a portion of the sales to the Lions Club. The Lions do the parking and the entrance gate.
Carnival by the Sea runs July 10-13 at the end of W. Redwood Avenue behind the Company Store in Fort Bragg. The carnival is open Thursday-Friday 4-10 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday noon-10 p.m. Tickets are $35.
