eyeglasses News Archive

17-Dec-2008

 

  • Six Flags holds holiday charity drive (Vallejo Times-Herald)
    Guests visiting Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's Holiday in the Park can help the less fortunate in several ways, according to a park announcement.Six Flags is accepting donations of used but usable eyeglasses, new, unwrapped toys for needy children and bags of food staples


  • Police hunt suspect in phoney-cheque scam (Hamilton Spectator)
    A middle-aged woman defrauding banks with bogus cheques is being hunted by Hamilton and Halton police. The woman has struck several Hamilton banks over the past week.


  • Italian Stocks: Autogrill, Enel, Luxottica, Pirelli Re, UBI (Bloomberg)
    Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Italy?s benchmark S&P/MIB Index declined 35, or 0.2 percent, to 19,266. The following stocks were among the most active on the Italian market today. Share symbols are in parentheses.


  • 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.


  • 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.


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