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Recycle for Sight Month

Story of the Week: 10 Ways to Participate in Recycle for Sight Month

May 11, 2012

tags: club building, community service, environment project, eyeglass recycling, Lions club, Lions Recycle for Sight

by lionsclubsorg

 

Every May, Lions join together to celebrate Recycle for Sight Month. Through your support of the Recycle for Sight program, people around the world are seeing clearly.

Your club can increase your profile in the community, help people in need and improve the environment by keeping used eyeglasses out of landfills with the Recycle for Sight program. Here are 10 ideas to get your club started:

1. Contact places of worship, local organizations, community centers, libraries, retail stores and other busy neighborhood locations and ask if you can offer an eyeglass recycling box.
2. Keep your eyeglass drop-off locations attractive. Club supplies offers eyeglass recycling boxes and updated Recycle for Sight materials are available for download on our Web site.
3. Work with local youth groups for a joint collection, such as Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
4. Collect eyeglasses at a regularly scheduled fundraiser, such as your club’s pancake breakfast or summer festival. This also gives your club the chance to talk more about what happens to the eyeglasses you collect.
5. Challenge a local elementary school to help with an eyeglass recycling drive. You can award the student or class that collects the most eyeglasses with a fun prize and alert your local newspaper to the contest for a great public relations opportunity.
6. Consider supporting your closest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center by volunteering your time or making a financial contribution.
7. Provide LCI with up to six of your club’s eyeglass collection locations so we can post them on the Web site.
8. Maintain your eyeglass recycling locations on a regular basis. Collect the donated eyeglasses, ensure the box isn’t damaged or tattered and keep the area looking clean and inviting.
9. Dedicate a portion of your club’s next meeting to learning more about the Recycle for Sight program. Share information from the Club Guide and learn about where the eyeglasses you collect go after the donation.
10. Ask your local media if they can publicize your efforts. A fill-in-the-blank news release is available and information about how to approach members of the media is available online.

Lion Evan Eats Strawberry Shortcake...

King Lion Evan Burnett (left) & Jim Labelle (right)

(Nick Murphy - lower right corner)

The Zone Dinner was FUN!!!  Look at the smiles!!!!



Memorial Day Rememberance Ceremony

YOU ARE INVITED:

Hosted By:  Rainier

American Legion Post 264

May 28, 2012 @ 11:00 AM

Rainier Veteran's Memorial Park

Binghampton St. E., Rainier, WA

To remember, reflect, and honor our fallen

comrades in arms

on this Memorial Day

Potluck  BBQ to follow

For more information call Deonne Hardy

c: 360. 701.2558 // h: 360.458.4101

Website:  www.alphst264.com

Email: info@alpost264.com

PO Box 763

Rainier, WA 98576

Zone Dinner Meeting Update

We had 34 people attend the dinner. Only 2 items were donated by groups outside of our club for the raffle.  George Johnson, Chris Beck and Rod Mitchell brought donations for the silent auction and raffle. Rod brought donations from several Rainier businesses: 

Teddy Bear Hauling

Main Street Cookies

Trammel Smith Barber Shop

Suks Salon

Sonja’s Restaurant

We received many compliments on the food from the Chinese Wok from our guests. The meeting went well. Groups reported on their activities, membership retention and increases, White Cane Days, Project New Hope, Camp Leo, grant writing, Lions Club Garage sales, etc. Groups reported on ways of serving our communities.

Dave Pratt announced the possibility of a large meeting being held in the future in Tacoma, WA. The committee was very impressed with the Tacoma Convention Center in 2016. More information will be sent out on that, later.

Leadership is looking into getting a class together to teach grant writing to the Lions Clubs in our district.

Sugar Murphy is having a membership retention meeting at her house on May 29th – at the same time as the Dinner for 5. Victoria & I have been invited to attend. We will discuss this at the next meeting. Linda and I went to the last meeting, where we learned a lot.

Sugar took a computer class on social networking. She shared this at her last membership meeting. Linda learned about social networking from Sugar and created our Lions Club blog (http:rainierlionsclub.blogspot.com) and Rainier Lions Club Facebook page as a result of that meeting. We’ve had almost 1200 visitors to our blog, so far.

The Rainier Lions Club won the 2 yards of gravel donated by Teddy Bear Hauling. It will be delivered to the Rainier Chapel and spread in the church parking lot.

Our thanks to all Lions Club members who attended our Zone Dinner. For those who didn’t attend, you really missed a fabulous evening!! Evan was very gracious....... Nick Murphy and Jim LaBelle won a special strawberry shortcake. You can find out all about it at the meeting on Monday night, May 14th at 7:00 PM.

Linda Lazelle will not be at Monday’s meeting, so if you have items for the agenda, please email Linda Johnson or Bernice Beck. We have left over Chinese food, so there will not be a pot luck or catering. See you Monday!

We serve!

George Johnson

EYE BANK NEWS

Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research shared a link.

Eye Banks Are Able to Successfully Prepare, Preload Injector Cartridges and Transport Dsaek Grafts to Surgical Centers, Study Finds

Fort Lauderdale, Fl. (May 6, 2012) — Eye banks are able to prepare and load corneal tissue into intraocular endothelium injector cartridges, and successfully transport them to surgical centers ready for transplant. The findings were presented today at the 2012 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting.

About the Study
Eight corneal buttons were prepared at the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research (LEITR), Tampa, FL, for Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) using an automated microkeratome and 8.5mm trephines. The tissue was loaded into intraocular endothelium injector cartridges (Tan EndoGlide, Angiotech) and shipped overnight. For the control group, two precut corneas were transported without injector loading. The control group was trephined and immediately loaded into injector cartridges on-site.

The endothelium of the grafts was stained with trypan blue 0.4 percent and alizarin red S 0.5 percent. Each button was imaged using a Carl Zeiss Stemi SV11 dissecting microscope. Whole graft images were analyzed and the percentage of endothelial damage was measured. The findings showed that the preloaded corneal buttons demonstrated an average of 9.07 percent damage to endothelial cells, while the control group revealed an average of 36.2 percent damage. The difference in endothelial damage between the preloaded and control buttons was statistically significant (p=0.004).

“These initial findings look very promising for the future of corneal transplants,” says David C. Gritz, MD, MPH, Director of Cornea and Uveitis Divisions, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Montefiore Medical Center. Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “Allowing eye banks to handle the tissue preparation and injector preloading may allow for increased precision and reproducibility that would result in decreased surgical time and better patient outcomes. More studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these results.” “As demonstrated in 2006 with the advent of microkeratome-prepared corneal lamellar grafts in a centralized facility, eye banks have proven their ability to change industry practice for the better,” adds Patrick Gore, RN, CEBT, Director, Business Development, Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research. “Further eye bank studies assessing various eye bank preparations, storage techniques, and devices are ongoing to determine if preloading grafts in injector cartridges prior to transport is a viable option.

Source: Chuck R, Gritz D, Herzlich A, Prince-Wolfish J, Mozayan A, Zhang C, Gore S, Sprehe N, Eye Bank Preparation, Injector Cartridge Preloading, Shipping and Cold Storage of DSAEK Grafts: A Laboratory Study of Endothelial Survival. 2012 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting.

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Update on Lions Club International Trees Planted

News via New Zeland:

8,262,335 trees have been planted worldwide as part of the Lions International tree planting challenge.and in New Zealand 541,682; a great result so far and more than twice the amount of trees planted in Australia!