Uniontown, Ohio Lions Club

By Lisa Mumma
Citizen Journalist
Editor’s note: The following is the fourth part in a six-part series of profiles on our Citizen Choice Awards honorees. Citizen Choice Awards is an award ceremony that recognizes people who exemplify what it means to be a Garner citizen. This week, we honor the Garner Lions Club for civic organization.
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The Uniontown Lions Club recycles used eye glasses, both children and adults. We separate by class, clean and read the prescriptions of the eye glasses collected from various counties in our area.
These glasses are recorded with our lensometers, the prescriptions noted and placed in individual plastic see-through bags and packaged in boxes-of lots of 100.
If [...]

Charlie Hall Sun Journal
Christine Turner of Bridgeton was grocery shopping with her three children Wednesday afternoon when she saw the North Carolina Lions Foundation free eye-screening bus in the parking lot of Merci Clinic.
Turner works in a sandwich shop and doesn’t have insurance. Her husband, Christopher, recently started a new job at a retail [...]

By Scott Rawdon Buckeye Lake, Ohio – The Lions Club Foundation, including the Millersport Lions Club is raising $80,000 to send the Ohio State School for the Blind Marching Band to march in the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
Millersport Lion Rondia Sexton said the OSU Blind Marching Band is the only one [...]

Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center handles 500,000 donations annually
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer
Individuals across the country annually drop about 6 million pairs of glasses into local Lions Clubs’ refurbished mailboxes, but not many donors know where those used spectacles go.
JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Allentown Lions Club President Robert Strovinsky sorts glasses with various prescriptions at the club’s [...]