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 you know of any organizations, in need of our services of eye glass inventory-kindly let us know by completing the form below.

Sorry, we are unable to fulfill individual requests at this time.

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Our Christmas party chairman, Bob Moffat was the evening’s emcee and had Lion Bud Bourn lead the club in a verse of “Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer”.

After dinner the kids all ran to the front pf the club to secure their seats for the entertainment and course arrival of the big man. The evening entertainment was provided by the Wizard of Yo AKA Eric Monroe.

Eric began playing with a classic wooden Yo Yo at the age of twelve and said it was winning a playground competition that gave him the passion to keep throwing and eventually landed him a job with Sports Illustrated and Universal. Eric said one of his inspirations had been the Smothers Brothers who was responsible for at least one of the resurgences of the yo yo.

Eric showed several tricks and had the club joining in laughing and clapping along, even from the back of the room I could her my daughters and niece and nephew howling at various tricks like shoot the moon, which Eric nicknamed the black eye. Monroe finished by having Spot, his imaginary yo yo dog, jump into his pocket. Moffat then led the club in a chorus of Jungle Bells in usher in Santa Claus.

Santa visited with the children on his way up the front of the room and joked about sitting on one child’s lap.  As I looked across the room I saw wide-eyed gazes from all of the children, this was indeed the moment that they had been waiting for. The children waited for their names to be called and then went to the front to visit with Santa.

It was a great night for children and adults alike.

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The direct reason I became involved with this volunteer group is because of its work to help better the lives of people with vision impairment and blindness, and to help them better integrate into the community around them.

Over 125 years ago, Helen Keller, deaf and blind from infancy, played a leading role in many of the significant political, social and cultural movements of the 20th century, working unceasingly to improve the lives of people who were blind and deaf. In 1925, Helen Keller addressed the Lions International Convention, challenging members to become “knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness.” From that time, Lions clubs have been actively involved in service to the blind and visually impaired.

I found my way to the Lions Club three years ago. Being a member has provided me the opportunity to share my story of being a visually impaired member of the community. It was through the Lions Club and its generous support of the Guide Dog Foundation that I received my guide dog, Fia. Through the Voluntary Service for the Blind, another program supported by the Lions, I am helped weekly by a volunteer to do my grocery shopping.

The Lions Club helps support scientific research efforts at Yale and the University of Connecticut to eradicate blindness in our lifetime by our contributions to the Connecticut Lions Eye Research Foundation. The Lions Low Vision Center at Greenwich Hospital, of which I am a client, helps people with vision loss deal with a visual world by offering adaptive devices like magnifiers and electronic readers.

Through the support of the Lions Club, I am able to lead a fulfilling life. I have a civic involvement in my community, contributing wherever I can help. It has given me great personal satisfaction to look the world straight in the face while holding my head high.

Causes to support this time of year are many. Remembering the Lions Club would assuredly help expand our reach.

Alan Gunzburg, Greenwich Lions
The writer is president of the Greenwich Lions Club.

Title: Reverse Raffle
Location: Uniontown Lions Club
Description: Annual reverse raffle.
Start Time: 6:00
Date: 2009-03-21

We will post more details of the event soon…

We will begin distributing tickets in early January if you are interested tickets please fill out the following form:

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I had the pleasure of siting next to our zone chairman at dinner and during the meal he exclaimed that he had bought three sets of tickets for the 50/50 drawing and that he was very confident that his number would be drawn. King Lion Bob Tornow was joking with him that the winner has to sell tickets at the next meeting. As luck would have it the zone 6 chairman did prevail and he did indeed have winning ticket, we will have to press him further about his secret technique.

I also had the pleasure of sitting near one of the new members( Lisa Dunlap) that were inducted tonight. Lisa Dunlap and Richard Lewis became the two newest members of the club, congratulations to you both.

…more to come