eyeglasses News Archive

16-Dec-2008

 

  • California inducts celebrities into Hall of Fame (The Sacramento Bee)
    Jack Nicholson was among the celebrities inducted into the California Hall of Fame on Monday. Celebrities accustomed to critical acclaim were a bit star-struck as they walked the red carpet Monday evening at California Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the California Museum of History, Women & the Arts. The honorees began arriving at 6:40 p.m. for the 7 p.m. induction ceremony, ...


  • New Albany Lions Club finds Christmas trees still in demand (Louisville Courier-Journal)
    For more than half a century, one of the New Albany Lions Club's major fundraisers has been selling Christmas trees. The local chapter sometimes sells as many as 500 to 600 trees a year to help pay for its work with the vision-impaired and organizations that help them. The club has paid for eye exams and eyeglasses for about 50 people this year alone.


  • Convicted killer Jensen ordered to pay restitution (The Times-News)
    A former nurse convicted eight years ago of a heinous murder in Twin Falls County was ordered on Monday to pay back the state of Idaho for her victims' expenses.


  • Half a billion without needed eyeglasses (Canada.com)
    More than 1 billion people globally suffer from a condition in which the eye's lens loses flexibility, blurring objects close by, and half of them do not own eyeglasses to help them see, researchers said.


  • Creating communities, one cookie at a time (The Providence Journal)
    WARWICK ? On the cream-colored sugar cookie, occupational therapist Holli Diohep painted a backward baseball cap ?? black to match the one worn by the boy sitting next to her.


  • Health News in Brief: Stressful workplace makes for ill employees (The New Straits Times)
    A global survey has found that a significant number of workers are affected by workplace stress, which in turn is, adversely affecting their health.


  • Wish List Quad-Cities: Young couple hopes for holiday help for daughter (Quad-City Times)
    Roxane Fuller and Kurt Gagel hope something finally breaks their way this holiday season. ?When we get our foot in the door, it seems we get it pulled back,? said Fuller, who turns 21 today.


  • CHARITY WISH LISTS (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
    Help for kids


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