eyeglasses News Archive

14-May-2008

 

  • Smash-and-grab crooks find new target: eyeglasses (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
    Smash-and-grab burglars hit another Atlanta retail store early Friday, but this time, instead of stealing high-dollar blue jeans, they took designer eyeglasses and sunglasses. The thieves shattered the front door of the Pearle Vision store on Lenox Road in Buckhead shortly before 3 a.m. Atlanta police Sgt. J.A. Branum said. Store employees estimated that the thieves made off with about $150,000 ...


  • SW column: Donate specs, help Lions with a vision (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
    The Lions Club has collection boxes in Gates and Chili for old eyeglasses which are then cleaned and repaired and sent to Third World countries. Lenscrafters accepts the old specs in Henrietta.


  • Comfort For Bespectacled Kids - Eyeglasses Make Them Look Smart According To Their Peers (Medical News Today)
    Young children tend to think that other kids with glasses look smarter than kids who don't wear glasses, according to a new study.Children between the ages of 6 and 10 who were surveyed for the study also thought that kids wearing glasses looked more honest than children who don't wear glasses.


  • $150,000 Worth of Eyeglasses Stolen (13 WMAZ Macon)
    Smash-and-grab bandits struck an Atlanta retail store Friday, nabbing what store employees estimate is $150,000 worth of designer eyeglasses and sunglasses.


  • Homicide suspect escapes (The Daily Iberian)
    Three suspects were arrested Saturday in the shooting death of a New Iberia gun shop owner. However, one of the suspects was believed to have escaped from police custody and was still being sought as of 9 p.m. Saturday.


  • State donates glasses to area Lions Clubs (Lake County Journals)
    Eyeglasses forgotten at airports across the state now will improve the vision of people around the world.


  • Roughed up by Calgary mall security, protester says (CBC Calgary)
    A protester is asking a Calgary mall to apologize and replace his broken eyeglasses following a weekend run-in with security guards.


  • Lions group in Indian River County collects used eyeglasses, more (Vero Press Journal)
    Lions International has designated May as Recycle for Sight Month. Lions Clubs all over the world will collect items, especially used eyeglasses, to be recycled.


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