Country Club Lions Club of North Highlands presented the Army & Air Force Exchange Service a plaque for being so generous to allow the Lions Club use of the McClellan Base Exchange as a location for recycle containers to collect used eye glasses and hearing aids. They are sent to Folsom Prison to be refurbished.
Over 1 Billion pairs of glasses have been collected and processed through The Folsom Project at Folsom Prison where they are cleaned, reconditioned, re-prescriptioned, categorized by prescription and prepared for distribution by Lions Clubs throughout the world. The Base Exchange recycle bin alone collected over 320,000 pairs of those glasses.
Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members in approximately 45,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world. Since 1917, Lions Clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired and made a strong commitment to community service and serving youth throughout the world. For more information about Lions Clubs International, visit the web site at www.lionsclubs.org.
Country Club Lions Club meets every Monday at Noon. Only on the first Monday of the month they meet in the evening at 6:00pm for those that cannot come to the Noon meeting. For more information visit their web site at www.e-clubhouse.prg/sites/countryclubca.