It is the first day of November and it is really cold.
The Lions Club Halloween Party went well and even though Halloween night was cold there were bunches of trick or treaters on the streets. I will have the winners of the costume contest listed soon.
Happenings here in town are:
The Coffee Cafe at the Church of God open daily from 7:30 to 10 a.m. All men, women, and children are welcome to attend.
It is time for Upward Basketball and Cheerleading at the Tower Life Center Church on Wayne Street. Please go to the Facebook page to get information as evaluations probably start soon for boys and girls from Kindergarten through eighth grade.
Are you saving your eyeglasses for the Zanesville Lions? We just took a great big bag full down to the recycling center at Upland a few weeks ago. You can deposit your eyeglasses, hearing aids and cell phones on my porch or at the Lions Clubhouse inside the 24/7 Library door.
Here is the journey of recycled eyeglasses in Lions Clubs all over the world:
1. Lions Clubs collect used eyeglasses at various community locations.
2. The glasses are shipped to the nearest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center where trained volunteers sort, clean, and determine the prescription strengths of the glasses.
3. Volunteers at the recycling center carefully package the prepared glasses and store them until they are required for eyeglass-dispensing missions. Glasses not suitable for reuse are recycled for scrap, with the earnings benefitting local Lions projects.
4. At the mission site, eye care professionals and trained Lion volunteers perform vision screenings and dispense the appropriate recycled glasses, free of charge, to children and adults in need. Dr. Eric Purdy, of Bluffton and Fort Wayne, has traveled all over the world helping the poor with their eye problems.
Last February, Lions Clubs from all over Northern Indiana contributed to gathering, preparing, and shipping over 30,000 eyeglasses to Honduras. Many third-world countries have no access to eyeglasses.
You can place your unneeded eyeglasses, sunglasses or reading glasses in any of the hundreds of collection boxes located throughout northern Indiana.
