eyeglasses News Archive

09-Apr-2008

 

  • Woman assaulted in her home (Mid-Hudson News)
    TOWN OF NEWBURGH ? Police are looking for a suspect in connection with the assault of a woman in her own home early Tuesday morning.


  • Masons give $1,000 to help North Mountain Middle School in San Jacinto (The Press-Enterprise)
    Since 1920, the Free and Accepted Masons of California have proclaimed April as Public Schools Month. Sandy Stillings, school services assistant at North Mountain Middle School, approached Lodge No. 338's chairman of the Public Schools Committee, Les Geiger, about her students.


  • Donate used eyeglasses (Home News Tribune)
    SOMERSET COUNTY ? IN CELEBRATION of Protect Your Vision Month, the Somerset County Office for the Disabled invites the public to donate used prescription eyeglasses to people home and abroad who do not have access to eye care.


  • FYI: Hitting someone almost always illegal, law says (The Lufkin Daily News)
    Q: Is it illegal to hit someone wearing eyeglasses?


  • Camden Lions see globally with eyeglass campaign (Camden Herald)
    CAMDEN ? The Camden Lions Club had a first-hand look, recently, at how their organization?s eyeglasses recycling program benefits people in need in other countries, and it has been proposed that the Club help fund eye-care programs in a community in Columbia for one year.


  • Luxottica to bring 300 jobs to Groveport (The Columbus Dispatch)
    An Obetz company that makes prescription eyeglasses expects to hire up to 300 people over the next couple of years as it expands into a new manufacturing plant.


  • Air Pollution Eyed as Raw Material for Plastics (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
    In the future, all those DVDs you buy could be made from air pollution. If plans to remove carbon dioxide from smokestacks succeed, the gas could be harnessed and turned into plastic products, new research claims. Carbon dioxide is emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuels, primarily by power plants and automobiles. It is the main greenhouse gas contributing to man-made global ...


  • Trial under way in theft from disabled man (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
    By MELODY McDONALD FORT WORTH -- Johnny Bryant is mentally challenged. The 58-year-old man barely reads and can't do math. But when he was 18, prosecutors said, he found something he was good at: stocking groceries. For the past four decades, Bryant has worked nights at area grocery stores. By the summer of 2002, prosecutors said, he had socked away $151,000 in his profit-sharing account with ...


  • U.S. Vision lands deal as BJ's optical unit (Courier-Post)
    Shoppers can load up on eyeglasses under a deal in which U.S. Vision is taking over the optical operation at 156 BJ's Warehouse Clubs.


  • Tuscaloosa Teen's Appeal For Eyeglasses Exceeds Goal (NBC 13 Birmingham)
    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- A Tuscaloosa teen, Edmondson Wright, has an unusual problem. His project to become an Eagle Scout has been so successful he has been nearly overwhelmed by the response.


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