eyeglasses News Archive

06-Jan-2009

 

  • Des Moines kids express inner Warhol (The Des Moines Register)
    The Des Moines Art Center gave a crash course in pop art to kids in two groups on Dec. 30.


  • Grip program helps provide glasses (Silver City Sun-News)
    SILVER CITY ? Children who need eyeglasses but can't afford them have a clear ally in one organization. Kevin Fast, executive director of Gang Risk Intervention Project, started working with schools in Grant County because of the number of youths who need glasses, he said.


  • Americans with Disabilities Act applies to more people (Chicago Tribune)


  • Party store to hire 200 for spring (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
    ShindigZ said Monday it will once again temporarily boost Whitley County?s employment numbers when it hires more than 200 seasonal workers this spring to take and fill orders. The South Whitley-based online party supplies company sells prom-related products and has more than 36,000 party items in stock.


  • Prism eyeglasses help brain injuries (Friendswood Journal)
    The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC), a leader in the treatment and rehabilitation of veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), is continuing to adapt its programs and offer cutting-edge technology to meet the needs of the men and women who have served in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq (OIF). The latest breakthrough is the ...


  • Vuzix Unwraps Sunglasses-Style Video Eyewear (BIOS)
    Just when you thought video eyewear couldn't get any geekier, Vuzix launches the Wrap 920AV. Pitched as a ?ground-breaking' addition to the video eyewear market, the Wrap 920AV is a portable big screen solution with Vuzix's proprietary Quantum optics technology ...


  • Lions Club can use your used glasses, hearing aids to help others (Orlando Sentinel)
    Representatives of the Mount Dora Lions Club will be in front of post offices in Mount Dora, 711 N. Donnelly St., and Eustis, 111 E. Clifford Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 17 to accept donations of used eyeglasses and hearing aids.


  • Eggs hit only my eyeglasses: Chuan (The Nation - Thailand's English news)
    Chuan Tuesday recounted that he was escaped from the pelting by angry protesters in Lampang. He said as the eggs threw by the protesters only hit his eyeglasses and then spurted to other people.


  • Glasses retailer has price-cutting edge (The Japan Times)
    Teruhiro Ueno has seen both his business and reputation grow by upholding a key retail strategy: undercutting the competition. The 67-year-old founder of the Zoff eyeglasses chain has thus taken on the handle of "price-breaker" in the process of revolutionizing the cost of retail glasses.


  • American Disabilities Act now applies to more people (Chicago Tribune)


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