eyeglasses News Archive

01-Nov-2007

 

  • Sight Night Puts Focus On Giving This Halloween (The Morning News)
    BENTONVILLE -- This Halloween -- or Sight Night -- Hook Eye Care in Bentonville and volunteers will be asking for more than just candy; they'll also be scaring up used eyewear along their route.


  • HELPING HAND: Lions Club seeks used eyeglasses (Ridgefield Press)
    In an effort to correct deficient eyesight around the world, Lions International collects discarded prescription and non-prescription eyeglasses, repairs, cleans and packages them and sends them to Third World countries.


  • Kansan battles to save his sight (The Wichita Eagle)
    Like most people, Jeff Benelli of Overland Park had never heard of choroideremia. Then, when he was 27, he began bumping into things. "I thought I was losing my mind," he said. "I'd go to doctors and they would check my eyes and tell me I had 20/20 vision. But they were just checking my center field of vision, and when I turned my head, I could see things fine." Finally he was diagnosed with ...


  • The eyes have it! (Daily Journal)
    From left, Bill Allen, Keith Castleberry and Tom Hill stand outside the Farmington Post Office Saturday collecting eyeglasses for the Farmington Lions? Club. It?s a project the Lions? Club tackles every year. Hill said the frames are fixed and outfitted with new lenses in third world countries and distributed there. He said anyone who missed the collection can still take their glasses to the ...


  • Eyeglass frames sporting many looks this season (Orlando Sentinel)
    Rectangular eyewear will remain popular this season, but expect to see more bold, cutting-edge colors, metal and plastic hybrids and bling.


  • Lions Club wants roaring comeback in Bullhead City (Mohave Valley News)
    BULLHEAD CITY - Called the area's ?best kept secret,? it had been in existence in Bullhead City since 1939. For more than 60 years, its members had provided glasses for the poor, vision enhancement computers to magnify reading material and scholarships for local high school graduates.


  • If sometimes you feel like a nut, find a Lions Club member (Observer-Reporter)
    WAYNESBURG - Waynesburg Lions Club is kicking off its 16th annual Koeze nut sale to help fund the Lions ongoing projects, including the purchase of eyeglasses for the needy, diabetes research and the club's many other projects.


  • New GM has shown he can bridge the Cards' organizational divide (The Pantagraph)
    ST. LOUIS -- John Mozeliak has a Clark Kent look about him, so naturally Cardinals fans are wondering if heâ?™ll have the necessary muscle to reshape the franchise and give it a push forward, into the future.


  • Woman left with salesman in July, hasn't been seen since (Anchorage Daily News)
    Before a magazine salesman knocked on her door one July day, Darby Anne LeBrun seemed to be leading the life of a fairly normal 21-year-old, Anchorage police say.


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