Eyeglass Deliveries
For those not able to attend our meeting last night, the Club received two deliveries of glasses to be used in our eyeglass recycling program.
The first delivery was from the North Canton Lions. The second was a van load delivered by members of the Lisbon Lions Club including PDG Tom Kirkbride and [...]
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.
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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 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 [...]
Retailer donated 30,000 pairs of sunglasses and reading glasses to charity New Eyes for the Needy
S-based travel retailer Hudson Group has donated the sunglasses and reading glasses inventory from its New York and New Jersey airport, bus and rail terminal stores to charitable organisation New Eyes for the Needy, which recycles glasses for distribution to poor people in developing nations.
The 30,000 pairs of glasses were worth over $1m in retail [...]
Uniontown Lion Paul Ruley bring clear vision to thousands each year
Longtime Uniontown resident, Paul Ruley, has been deeply involved with the Uniontown Lions club’s efforts to collect used eyeglasses, evaluate their prescriptions and match them up with those in need of glasses in third world countries.
Each Monday morning and Thursday evening you’ll find Paul and members of the Uniontown and neighboring Lions Clubs gathered together [...]
Local Lions clubs fear closing down due to lack of volunteers
Editors Note: Our Uniontown, Ohio Lions Club is still strong and growing. We have added several new members during the current fiscal year and we have a few other prospects that could become members in the next few months. With strong support from the community we are set to be a part of the Uniontown, Ohio landscape for years to come. If you are interested in membership, please fill out our Membership Form
