eyeglasses News Archive

27-Nov-2007

 

  • Helping youngsters understand Alzheimer's (The Sun Chronicle)
    NORTON -- The third-graders giggle as Joyce Simard dons a pair of oversized star-shaped, blue-lensed eyeglasses. "Sometimes when people get older, they have trouble...What?" she asks the Solmonese Elementary School class. "Seeing!" they respond in unison.


  • Local digest (The Gilroy Dispatch)
    The Gilroy Lions Club recently collected 1,340 pairs of used eyeglasses where they were boxed and will be sent to the Eyeglass Collection Center in Vallejo. There, they will be catalogued, transported throughout the world by volunteers and given away.


  • Hospice workers give tirelessly, care deeply (Portsmouth Herald)
    According to the American Cancer Society, the concept of hospice is derived from the centuries-old idea of offering a place of shelter and rest, or "hospitality," to weary and sick travelers on long journeys. In 1967, Dame Cicely Saunders at St.


  • PMS students have a vision (Portsmouth Herald)
    PORTSMOUTH ? As a community project, Team Foley eighth-graders at Portsmouth Middle School collected 122 pairs of used eyeglasses. This program is in its seventh year at Portsmouth Middle School. Ted Robbins, eyesight chairman for the Portsmouth...


  • In Iran, a cadre of lawyers takes the case of justice (Los Angeles Times)
    Of Iran's 27,000 attorneys, perhaps no more than 100 take politically charged cases. They brave insults, assaults and jail. Tehran


  • Bullets fly in road rage (CNews)
    Road rage reached a new level when a city cab driver was shot at twice by another driver yesterday. Mohammed Khan, 48, said he was driving on Sloane Ave., just off Victoria Park Ave., when a man in another car kept motioning for him to pull over.


  • Eleanor Rees on November's poetry workshop (Guardian Unlimited)
    Poetry workshop: Eleanor Rees enjoys the specific, sensual detail in this month's responses


  • Deadline nears for flexible spending account users (USA Today)
    Ah, the end of the year, a time for reflection, family gatherings and a mad dash by those with money left in their flexible spending accounts to spend it: on eyeglasses, extra contact lenses and cold medicine.


  • Obituary: Ex-POW never gave a hint of trauma he experienced (The Sacramento Bee)
    Lloyd Nutter, a B-17 navigator in World War II who flew 29 raids over Germany before he was shot down and endured 11 difficult months as a prisoner of war, died Sunday. He was 87.


  • Coon Rapids man pleads guilty to beating 'fussy' baby (Pioneer Press)
    The baby was being "fussy." So Andrew Louis Cloutier hit the 4-week-old boy. Hard. And repeatedly. Cloutier can't remember how many times he


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