California Lions honored
POMONA – The Pomona Host Lions Club won District Club of the Year at the recent District 4-L4 Convention held in Palm Springs.
The 43-member Pomona club competed against all Division B clubs, which have 26 to 50 members.
Club of the Year was also awarded in two other divisions: Diamond Bar Breakfast Lions Club, which won [...]
Lions Club conducts vision screening at OakPark Pre-schools
Jackson TWP, Ohio —
The Jackson Township Lions Club, in cooperation with OakPark Pre-schools in Jackson Township, Massillon and Waynesburg, offered a free eye screening of the children at these facilities. Eye exams of children under the age of 6 years old are often not done.
The KidSight Project used in conjunction with the [...]
Chernobyl Children Come To Torquay
A GROUP of youngsters from Chernobyl has been invited to a local opticians on Wednesday 13 April to receive free sight tests and glasses.
Some 25 years after the 1986 nuclear power disaster, staff at Specsavers in Torquay will host eight children visiting from Korosten, Ukraine, a town near Chernobyl which remains contaminated [...]
Lions clubs focus on children’s vision
Canandaigua, N.Y. —
Anna Orcutt thought the smiling face and the blinking red lights were amusing and so did her friends. The five-year-old was one of a number of children at St. Mary’s School last week who looked into the computer face of the state-of-the-art device being used by members of the local [...]
Dr. Wing-Kun Tam Named to Pediatric Cataract Initiative’s Global Advisory Council
OAK BROOK, ILL. — Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) has appointed Dr. Wing-Kun Tam to the global advisory council of the Pediatric Cataract Initiative (www.PediatricCataract.org).
The newly founded Initiative is utilizing the resources of the Bausch + Lomb Early Vision Institute and LCIF to identify, fund and promote innovative methods of overcoming [...]
Citizen Choice Awards: Garner 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.
Winded from [...]
Attention: Eye Doctors and overseas missionaries, The Uniontown Lions Club has recycled eyeglasses for distribution
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 [...]
Lions provide free eye screening
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 [...]
