SPOT Vision Screening Training
On September 23rd Lions from the Central Saanich Club and the Sidney Lions Club came together for training / refresher on the SPOT Vision Screening Project. On September 27th we will be screening roughly 200 students in Grades 1 - 10 at the LAU'WELLEN Tribal School.
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SPOT Vision Screening Project
Central Saanich Lions Members did vision screening on 549 Grade 3 students in School 63 (Saanich). We also did vision screening on Grades 1 - 10 at the LAU,WELNEW Tribal School.
Next year we have been invited to do vision screening on Grades 1 thru 5 in the Saanich School District and also Grades 1 thru 10 at the LAU,WELNEW Tribal School.
Wood Recovery Project
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Over the past few years firewood has become our largest fund raiser. All of the trees are donated by local home owners and contractors. When we get the call we cut the logs into rounds, its then taken to our firewood yard, where its split into firewood and from there delivered to local residence. The monies raised is then used in our Lions' supported charities.
Brass Recovery
Years ago the club was given the opportunity to extract brass from donated meters from our local municipalities. The club then decided to donate all of the proceeds to the local hospital towards the purchase of a GreenLight XPS Laser Therapy system for the management of male BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia). All though it took many years of delays the system was finally purchased last summer at which time we donated $46,000 from the recovered brass. We will continue to recover brass for a future project.
Recycle Eyeglasses Project
Usable Glasses Give New Life
Refractive errors can be easily corrected with eyeglasses, yet milliions living in low and middle income countries lack access to basic eye care service. Lions have recognozed the urgent need for corrective lenses and collect usable glasses in our community to support the Lions Recycle For Sight Program.
We send our collected eyeglasses to an official Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center (LERC) for processing. There, the glasses are sorted to determine those that are usable or unusable, processed and placed in inventory for distribultion to optical missions around the world. Lions help to minimize landfill waste by supporting precious metal reclamation and scrap processing for damaged glasses that are unusable.
