eyeglasses News Archive

17-Nov-2008

 

  • Safilo Cuts Forecasts Again, Ousts Tabacchi as Chief (Update1) (Bloomberg)
    Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Safilo Group SpA cut annual sales and margin forecasts for the second time in four months after demand for designer eyeglasses crumbled and ousted Massimiliano Tabacchi as chief executive officer.


  • 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.


  • Was later death linked to Busch?s? (Knoxville News Sentinel)
    In July 1972, some 3 ½ years after the murder of Rose Busch in her Sequoyah Hills home, the badly decomposed body of Oscar Hugh ?Buck? Willman, 58, of Andersonville was found stuffed in the trunk of his car in a Lexington, Ky., motel parking lot.


  • Metropolitan Diary (New York Times)
    A subway rider finds something fishy at Union Square.


  • Service clubs issued challenges (Baraboo News Republic)
    Organizations can help impoverished local students succeed, Baraboo's superintendent says The Baraboo School District's head official called on civic leaders Saturday to set up a new charity fund for disadvantaged students. The request came during a banquet for community service organizations which honored longtime local activist and historian Bob Dewel. Citing the national economic and mortgage ...


  • Burglars loot San Rafael shop but miss John Lennon's old spectacles (Contra Costa Times)
    His eyewear store in the Northgate mall was ransacked and some $200,000 in cash and merchandise stolen, but optometrist Hermann Dungs was upbeat: Burglars missed his most valuable item - a pair of John Lennon's eyeglasses.


  • Death becomes him: JI reporter gets a zombie makeover (Journal Inquirer)
    There is absolutely no such thing as too much fake blood. This is one of many lessons I took with me after the Hartford Stage Company successfully transformed me from happy-go-lucky reporter into the kind of creature that goes bump in the night.


  • Menno Scouts Collect Food, Eyeglasses (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
    MENNO ? On Oct. 25, Cub Scout Pack 191 of Menno participated in Scouting for Food and Sight, which was part of a nationwide BSA campaign to help the needy and assist the Lion's Club with their eyeglass collection goals.


  • COULD BE SPECTACULAR... (The Indiana Gazette)
    Members of the Indiana Lions club, from left, Bill Mechling and Phil Chiodo, and owner Michael Minich of the Bowser Minich Funeral Home, prepare for the Lions' annual collection of eyeglasses for people with vision problems.


  • Harlem Globetrotters to visit Gaylord (Gaylord Herald Times)
    GAYLORD -- The legendary Harlem Globetrotters are bringing their ?Spinning the Globe? World Tour to  Gaylord High School on Tuesday, Jan. 27 with their completely unique brand of exciting family fun, sure to create enduring memories that will be cherished for a lifetime.


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