eyeglasses News Archive

11-Aug-2008

 

  • Collected eyeglasses, cell phones get recycled to help others (Wharton Journal-Spectator)
    August is Cataract Awareness Month and Lions Club International's SightFirst Action has been preventing and reversing blindness worldwide.


  • FISH figures show program running smoothly (The Daily News)
    The FISH program is holding steady and doing what it is intended to do: provide emergency food to a large number of local households.


  • Lion's Club suffers from lack of funding (The Hamilton Journal News)
    The Hamilton Lion's Club, a charity organization, contributes to several worthy causes, including health care and eyeglasses for underprivileged children.


  • Accurate sketch returns rapist to prison (Akron Beacon Journal)
    While Walter Sayre was doing what rapists do, his latest victim was focusing on memorizing his face: the cold eyes, the scruffy beard, the eyeglasses shaped like hers.


  • Latest fashion trend for all to see (The Pantagraph)
    Patsy Webber has 11 pairs of eyeglasses, and expects to pick up a few more for good measure. Webber is part of a growing trend of consumers treating eyewear as a fashion statement.


  • Calif. lawmakers weigh chemical ban in baby items (AP via Yahoo! News)
    Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans.


  • California Weighs Chemical Ban (Time Magazine)
    California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans


  • Legislators mull chemical ban in baby items (The Monterey County Herald)
    SACRAMENTO ? Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans.


  • More than Rushmore: South Dakota road trip (The Pantagraph)
    CUSTER STATE PARK, S.D. -- The wild burro wouldn?t take no for an answer. We had already encountered grazing pronghorn antelope, packs of wild turkeys, prairie dogs, and enough bison to render us downright blase when yet another of the enormous beasts emerged on our four-day trip through the Black Hills of South Dakota.


  • Liz Smith (Baltimore Sun)
    H APPINESS IS having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city," said George Burns .


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