Sight Conservation and Work with the Blind
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ye exams and eyeglasses are provided free of charge to Fairmont residents unable to pay for their own eye care. A screening process assures that these services are provided to those who are truly in need. A local optometrist will provide the exam and provide prescription lenses and frames, if needed.
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eriodic eye screening clinics are held at various locations. Open to all, these have been held at schools, business locations and in conjunction with our Lions Journey for Sight.
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hite canes have been provided to blind residents to assist them in making their way safely.
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og guides are used by the blind to assist them in navigating through traffic and in day-to-day activities. The club provides financial support to two dog guide schools, Pilot Dogs and Leader Dogs.
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ampaing SightFirst and Campaign SightFirst II were world-wide Lions fund raisers that have resulted in prevention of vision loss for millions of people around the world, innnnnnnhe world, inininininincluding 80 million treatments for river blindness. Millions had sight restored by cataract removal. Over 200 eye hospitals and clinics have been built and ophthalmologists and other professional eye care workers have received trainning. Lions are seeking to eradicate preventable blindness around the world. The Fairmont Lions Club made and met a significan
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he Fairmont Lions Club regularly disseminates educational information about diabetic eye disease, glaucoma and other eye health issues.
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he Fairmont Lions Club collects your used eye wear for recycling. Used eyeglasses can be dropped in receptacles at Monongahela Valley Bank downtown or the Middletown Mall, as well as other locations including offices and churches, throughout the community. We send your old glasses to a Lions processing facility where they are cleaned, sorted and then used to provide improved sight to thousands in less well developed countries. Do you have an old pair or two sitting in a drawer? We'd loveeeveve to take them off your
Youth Activities
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he Lions Peace Poster Contest is held at East Fairmont Junior High School and West Fairmont Middle School, sponsored by the Fairmont Lions Club. Winning posters from each school will be sent for regional judging.
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e sponsor a high school student from East Fairmont High School and a student from Fairmont Senior High School to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar annually.
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ach year, the club sends a local male youth to Mountaineer Boys State and a female youth to Rhododendron Girls State.
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he annual Lions Christmas Party for the Children at the Union Mission has for over six decades brought smiles to the faces of less fortunate children and their families throughout Fairmont.
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airmont Lions Club assisted both financially and with members on-site working to build the handicapped accessible playground at Watson School in the summer of 2007.
Other Activities
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he Fairmont Lions Club has adopted to clean and maintain approximately 2.5 miles of rail trail from Fairmont to Monongah, in cooperation with Marion County Parks and Recreation.
For more than 85 years, the Fairmont Lions Club has lived up to its motto, "We Serve."
FAIRMONT LIONS CLUB Motto: WE SERVE
FOUNDED 1923
Fairmont, WV USA
HOW WE SERVE
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