eyeglasses News Archive

28-Mar-2008

 

  • Staffing cuts weighed for nursing homes (Miami Herald)
    In a move that one Miami nursing-home operator called a return to the ''dark ages,'' Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives want to suspend a state law that mandates how much care nursing-home patients must receive each day.


  • Legislature plans slash health care (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
    The 1 billion in cuts could range from transplant patients losing lifesaving drugs to screening of children with cleft palates.


  • Proposed Cuts Would Strangle Health Care (The Tampa Tribune)
    No more hospice for dying Medicaid patients. No more standards for staffing nursing homes. No more dentures or glasses for poor seniors, or hospital care for chronically ill patients who need organ transplants.


  • 3 p.m. ? Run to provide eyeglasses for children (Pacific Daily News)
    3 p.m., March 26 ? The Lions Club International District 204 will be holding its second run/walk to benefit Campaign Sightfirst Sunday. The run will begin at 6:30 a.m. at the Micronesia Mall and end at Ypao Beach Park. Funds raised will go toward getting eyeglasses to children who need them.


  • Lions Club will host 2nd 'Fund' Run/Walk (Pacific Daily News)
    The Lions Club International District 204 will be holding its second Lions Clubs Campaign Sightfirst "Fund" Run/Walk on Sunday, March 30. Proceeds from the run will go towards the Campaign Sightfirst, which helps get eyeglasses for children who need them.


  • What's next for Britney? Hopefully nothing (MSNBC)
    There?s little chance that five minutes sporting prop eyeglasses and a cardigan on a sitcom will freshen up a public image so damaged that Kevin Federline is seen as the stable member of the former couple.


  • Today (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
    The Black Keys - These guys are kind of like a cooler version of Queens of the Stone Age, mostly because they wear ridiculous hipster bug eyeglasses and don't play with the Foo Fighters. Plus, they'll have a guy named Jay Reatard open for them. 8 p.m. $16 in advance, $18 day of show.


  • BB?s, Kmart donating eyeglasses (The Ironton Tribune)
    SOUTH POINT ? BB?s Car Club of South Point and Kmart will donate 500 pairs of eyeglasses to nursing homes, veterans? homes and senior citizen centers in the Tri-State.


  • www.danceunlimited.us (Northwest Indiana Times)
    The Wanatah Lions Club will host its annual pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 30 at Wanatah Elementary School, 309 School Drive. The event includes a craft fair. The menu is all-you-can-eat pancakes, fresh local sausage, scrambled eggs, juice and coffee.


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