Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund Awards Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge $45,000 for completion of the siding!

We are so very pleased to announce that the Maybelle Clark MacDonald Fund has awarded Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge $45,000 for the completion of the lodge’s siding! The fund was established in 1970 by the late Maybelle Clark Macdonald and her husband Fred Macdonald. For 50 years MCM Fund has been investing in communities throughout Oregon. Their generosity has benefited organizations throughout the state in areas of cultural arts, education, human services, medical and public benefit. We are privledged to have the fund invest in the Santiam Pass Ski Lodge restoration as a public benefit. Their investment helps bring to life a community center that all will enjoy for many years.

The siding completion will bring a huge visible and structural change. Since 1986 the exterior has had no maintainance, and today most of the siding is off, and what remains is cupped, cracked and falling off. The new cedar siding is salvage timber granted to FSPSL by the Willamette National Forest after the Holiday Farm Fire in on the McKenzie River in 2020. The timber was milled in La Pine, OR. The MCM Fund is another very significant local organization involved in this important work.

Thank you Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund!