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558 N. Main St.,
Prineville, OR 97754
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| Local Lions Club collects eyeglasses, hearing aids |
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 | | ANDREA LUCAS/CENTRAL OREGONIAN | | Mary Reed, a Lions Club member, sorts through the glasses that were donated for the Sight and Sound project. |
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Prineville Lions Clubs all over the world promote services for vision and hearing impaired.
One of the activities they recently participated in was collecting used eyeglasses and used hearing aids for distribution to people who need them here in America and in foreign developing countries.
These missions make it possible for people to get the glasses and hearing aids free of charge. Local Lions Club members collected those items from boxes which were spread around town in most public buildings.
Oregon Lions last year collected more than 100,000 pairs of used eyeglasses and hearing aids.
As a part of this program, local Prineville community churches are promoting a drive to collect more glasses and hearing aids.
Lions provided collection boxes for each church and on Aug. 4, the donations were collected.
They were then turned into the Prineville Lions Club, who transported them to the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing foundation for distribution to the Lions Eyeglass Missions projects and the Oregon Lions Hearing Aid Bank.
"Our goal is a thousand pairs of glasses and 50 hearing aids that day", said Mary Reed, a Lion member.
Reed recently began the third year of her four-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation.
Executive Director Amber Kern said, "I am thrilled that Mary has been elected to the Board. Mary brings a wealth of considerable experience to our organization and I look forward to her significant contribution in helping our foundation strengthen its presence in her community."
The 2002-03 Board of Trustees for the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation consists of 30 members from across the state. The foundation, founded in 1959, is dedicated to serving the Lions Clubs of Oregon by supporting their efforts in humanitarian assistance, including but not limited to, sight, hearing, diabetes awareness and positive youth development. Some of the many programs that the OLSHF operates include: Oregon Lions Screening Unit Program, which provides free screenings in visual acuity; the Lions Indigent patient Care Program, which pays for eye and ear surgeries for low income Oregonians; Lions Eye Bank of Oregon, which prepares cornea and sclera tissues for transplant and research; and Lions Eyeglasses Recycling Program, which coordinates the Collection of used eyeglasses and their distribution to needy citizens of third world countries.
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