eyeglasses News Archive

01-Nov-2008

 

  • Vision Correction Procedure Hits a Milestone (Carteret County News-Times)
    (ARA) - More than 150 million Americans, or approximately 50 percent of the U.S. population, require eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct common vision problems. For these people, waking up in bed and reaching over to the nightstand for eye glasses is a normal ritual.


  • Does Palin's maverick label still stick? (Lexington Herald-Leader)
    A loyal Democrat, Kenny Powers never shared Sarah Palin's conservative politics. But the United Way organizer confesses a fondness for the governor who paired a folksy charm with scorn for Alaska's Republican old guard. "She was such a breath of fresh air," he says. That was then. Nearing the end of a bruising campaign, the Republican vice presidential candidate has seen her appeal to her ...


  • Littlejohn guilty in kidnap case (Queens Chronicle)
    ?He is short and stocky,? said the defense attorney, Jason Russo, pointing to his client, Darryl Littlejohn, who wore eyeglasses and an un-tucked, wrinkled dress shirt, and jeans.


  • Does Palin's maverick label still stick? (AP via Yahoo! News)
    A loyal Democrat, Kenny Powers never shared Sarah Palin's conservative politics. But the United Way organizer confesses a fondness for the governor who paired a folksy charm with scorn for Alaska's Republican old guard.


  • Lions Club to collect eyeglasses during BooFest (Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune)
    The Chillicothe Lions Club will be participating in the downtown BooFest this Friday, Oct. 31, at the north end of the Chillicothe State Bank building. The Lions Club will be distributing treats and collecting used eyeglasses for the Lions International Sight Night program.


  • Justices Greet Diva: It?s Ardor in the Court (New York Times)
    Winners of the NEA Opera Honors, the first new awards from the federal government for individual achievement in the arts in 26 years, charmed Supreme Court opera buffs on Friday.


  • Local team heads to El Salvador (Kitchener - Waterloo Record)
    WATERLOO REGION (Nov 1, 2008) -- Adele Newton has looked poverty in the eyes before.


  • Trick-or-treaters can help collect eyeglasses for Lions (Wisconsin State Journal)
    This Halloween, students from 32 Madison-area elementary schools won't just ask for candy when trick-or-treating ? they'll collect used eyewear as well. Madison Central Lions, a service organization, will partner with the Madison School District to bring about Madison's first Sight Nighttoday ? where elementary students will collect used eyewear for distribution to underprivileged people in ...


  • Fire departments collecting eyeglasses Oct. 31 (Community Press & Recorder)
    In cooperation with Give the Gift of Sight, a non-profit foundation sponsored by Luxottica Group, the Deerfield Township, Loveland/Symmes, Hamilton Township, Mason and West Chester fire departments will be in the neighborhoods collecting used eyeglasses starting during trick-or-treat hours on Friday, Oct. 31.


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