Help sort eyeglasses with Lions on Oct. 16
By Lions Club
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Rossmoor residents are invited to help the Rossmoor Lions Club sort donated eyeglasses on Friday, Oct. 16 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Club Room at Creekside Clubhouse. This is a casual event that volunteers and their friends can enjoy while sitting.
The eyeglasses to be sorted were customer returns to the Zenni Optical corporation, an online eyeglass company that, in turn, donated them to the Lions In Sight Foundation eyeglass warehouse in Vallejo. The glasses need to be unwrapped and boxed before being sent to California prisons for processing. Trained inmates use Lions Club lensometers to determine the prescriptions, repackage the glasses and record the prescription. The eyeglasses are sent to Lions In Sight clinics within California, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
The eyeglasses donated by Rossmoor residents are handled the same way. Lions Club members collect the glasses for packaging and shipment to the participating prisons. Lions Club greatly thanks Rossmoor residents for donating approximately 6,000 pairs of glasses every year.
Residents are encouraged to donate used eyeglasses, sunglasses (prescription and non-prescription), hearing aids and plastic bread tags to Lions Club. Collection points are located just inside the Gateway front door and between the Woodshop and Lapidary studios. Before depositing items in the Lions Club collection locations, eyeglass cases should be discarded and hearing aid batteries should be taken to RPM/MOD at 800 Rockview.
For more information on Lions In Sight, visit www. lionsinsight.net For more information about the Rossmoor Lions Club or membership, visit www.rossmoorlions.com Questions can be submitted through the Contact Us option.
Lions Club has no political or religious affiliation.