Vison Screening at Prairie School

This morning Anderson Lions Club members assisted the school nurse at Prairie School by screening 264 Kindergarten through third grade students.

Of those students, 24 were referred for further evaluation.

Vision screening and a safer community

Meadow Lane school's Kindergarten and Second grades, 216 students, were the beneficiaries of vision screening by members of the Anderson Lions Club on Thursday morning, October 29.
We were able to do the screening in a short time span because the school district has a screening unit like the one Lions District 4-C1 uses.

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After the session at the school the members went to the ribbon cutting for the new prescription drug disposal unit at the Anderson Police Station.
The Anderson Lions Club, Anderson Kiwanis Club, and the Anderson Rotary Club all contributed to the purchase of the unit, which provides a place for citizens to dispose of no longer needed prescription drugs to be discarded safely.

 

It's kinda long but it's a long, continuing story.

You can watch this video now.
Or... go here



It tells the story of Lions pretty well

Something we do

Every day we collect used eyeglasses from locations in our community and send them to be sorted for reuse.

Just one little instance.

Every day Lions Clubs perform vision screening.
It's free.

Recycle for Sight

It's a free community event

Members of the 

Anderson Lions Club

Will be collecting used eyeglasses:

at New Tech High on North Street 

(at East Street) 

Downtown Anderson

Bring those eyeglasses that nobody needs any longer and browse for bargains at the same time.

November was a fairly busy month for the Anderson Lions.
There were four separate vision screenings, two each at Meadow Lane and Prairie schools.
The Peace Poster Contest took place.
Three members attended the Lassen Region Cabinet Meeting at Weaverville.
A fourth member would have attended but she had to take an emergency [sic] trip to Kaui.

A blast from the past

In February 1962 the Anderson Lions hosted a student speaker contest for contestants from Anderson High School.
Gordon Wittman was the winner of that contest and went on to win the zone, region, district, area and multiple district contests.

Then there's this thing about club blogs

If a club expects to get traffic (page views, comments, whatever you want) on its blog, Facebook page, and/or Web page, it should post something on a regular basis and link it to other posts.

That said, we had a visitation from District Governor Larry Marcum.
It was great fun and quite informative.

When it is appropriate

Members should bring a camera ...or at least use a camera phone ...to document a visitation to another club.
They should do it particularly when they are retrieving paraphernalia that has been "borrowed" by the club they are visiting.
Four members, Beverly Fickes, Glen Cunningham, Jim Owens, and Skip O'Brien visited the Palo Cedro Lions Club last Tuesday to pick up the bell.
Unfortunately, the only evidence we have of said visit is our bell.

White Cane Day

We set up outside the door to Safeway in the Anderson Square Shopping Center.
It was fairly quiet at first, but Safeway sells donuts and there IS a Starbucks just inside the door.
All in all it was a pleasant experience for the five Lions who participated...

 ...except for the drunk who hung around for awhile.

One lady told us a story about Lions providing eye surgery for her brother.

A few of us were at Yreka

The Shasta Region Cabinet Meeting was in the Miners Inn on Saturday and Sunday.
Lions Scott and Melanie Hunter were there for the duration.
Lion Skip O'Brien slipped in, almost unnoticed, on both days.

Scott

Melanie

As mentioned, Skip was almost unnoticed.


Next up:

White Cane Days
and
an In-Sight-Full Day

More hands do more good

This is how Lions are paid

Thank you, Lisa!

New video

Lions Club from Balance Design on Vimeo.

New meeting location

Our long time meeting place, El Mariachi, has closed.
It wasn't a rumor this time.
We have found a new place a little bit (maybe a quarter mile) north.
It is the Peacock Chinese Restaurant.

Lions are busy in Anderson this week...

A warehouse for food distribution has been set up on Hirsch Court at Ox Yoke Road (near the Beacon Station).
Literally tons of food are available for those afflicted by the Clover Fire.
As you can see from the pictures it is a joint effort by the Salvation Army and at least eight Lions Clubs in the area.

Much more food, and more volunteers, arrived after these photos were taken.
These photos were stolen from certifiedskip.blogspot.com

Clover Fire relief

It was announced this morning that the Clover Fire is 100% contained.

This came up at the meeting last night

A couple of the members (okay... the Club President and the Club Secretary/Treasurer) are on the board of directors of the Senior Center.
They have tickets for the event.
A couple of other members expressed interest in attending.
So here's what the flyer looks like.

What is so great about this?
The senior center is entirely self-supporting, operating entirely on funds they raise in the community.
It receives no government funding, although the Senior Nutrition Program pays to use the facility to serve meals to seniors.

Another project

Tomorrow is the Annual Installation of Officers for the club.
But, more importantly, it is also the final day of the Diabetes Camp at Camp McCumber.
We will be there in full force to clean showers, cabins, and restrooms so the camps that follow have clean facilities.