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 [...]
Lions Clubs work together to send band to Rose Bowl
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 battle against preventable blindness
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 [...]
