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Contacts: Joe Hunter 268-4625Email: hunter@consolidated.netThe Lions Club has hospital equipment it loans out to local residents. The equipment includes a variety of items from hospital beds, wheelchairs, Vitrectomy chair, crutches, etc.. Residents in the Arcola School District can contact the individuals listed above if they or members of their family have a need for hospital equipment. |
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Chairperson: Joyce Hancock Phone: (217) 268-3373 |
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Each pair of donated glasses is cleaned, sorted and analyzed for its level of correction and made ready for the needy in Third World countries. Lions International uses the glasses in their program in Central and South America and more recently in Africa. Lions and non-Lions programs through out the third world countries use a large block of the used eyeglasses. Annual collections are about 85,000 pair with distributions of about 55,000 pair. Since July 1989, recycled eyeglasses have been sent to Bali, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Nepal, St. Lucia, Venezuela, the Yucatan, India, Mexico, and Brazil. |
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Print copy of: Application for Assistance
The Eye Exam & Eyeglass Committee helps residents of the Arcola School District who are in need to pay for at least a portion of their eye glass expense along with the cost of their eye exam. Applications for aid are available from the committee chairperson who is list above. Applicants will use any Public Aid as their first avenue of assistance. It is not the purpose of the Arcola Lions Club, Inc. to provide "free" eyeglasses, but rather to provide assistance to the most number of individuals possible in conjunction with any other types of aid or the applicant's own financial resources.
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Chairperson: Rev. Donald Winch (268-3212)Each year thousands of individuals are faced with the devastating effects of corneal blindness. You can open the window of the world by giving the gift of sight and pledging to donate your eyes upon death. Anyone can donate! You are never too young or too old to be an eye donor. The color of your eyes doesn't matter. Your gender, blood type, race, or how well you see doesn't matter, either. Even people with eye diseases can donate their eyes. In fact, diseased eyes are invaluable for use in research of a cure. There is no cost to the Donor or the Donor's family. All costs associated with the program are covered by donated dollars and processing fees charged the tissue recipient. In fact, it is illegal to buy or sell human eyes, organs, and tissues. Problems with disfigurement are very rare, and usually no visible signs are present to show that a person's eyes have been donated. Normal funeral arrangements can be made. Also, all major religions fully approve and support eye donation as a humanitarian gesture. There is no reason why YOU should not be an eye donor. PLEASE sign a Lions Eye Donor Card or if you live in ILLINOIS sign the back of your driver's license. Tell your relatives, physician, clergy and friends of your desire to become an eye donor. |
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Chairperson: Craig WelchAs an annual fund raising event the Arcola Lions Club sponsors a chili supper in the high school cafeteria prior to the last home football game of the year. (October 2009) |
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Chairperson: Jerry Stout 268-3609In October 2008 Lions of Arcola will join Lions statewide in this fundraiser for the Foundation and our club. Besides door-to-door and 4 way stop (Route 45 and Route 130) collections, we encourage underwriters to "purchase" cases of candy. Each case is $50, and you can underwrite as many cases, or fractions of a case as you please. |
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Coordinator: Bill Coombe 268-4988The Arcola Lions Club has been sponsoring scouting since 1949. In September 1956 the Arcola Lions Club, headed by President Bernard Nay, voted to enter into a lease agreement with Arcola Library Board for the back lot of the library property on East Main Street to build a scout cabin for Troop 96. The log cabin structure that was built has been the primary meeting place for all scouting programs. |
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Chairperson: Curtis Atteberry 268-4462As a fund raising the Arcola Lions Club runs a food stand during the Arcola Broom Corn Festival each fall. Amazing Arcola celebrates its heritage as the "Broom Corn Capital of the World" every year with this renowned festival featuring broom making, a huge arts and crafts show, free entertainment, great food, and one of the largest parades in downstate Illinois. |
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Chairperson: Mark Nacke 268-3853DELIVERY-December 24 each yearAnnually since 1950 the Arcola Lions Club has distributed food baskets and toys to needy families in the Arcola community. |
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Those Lions mints you see all over town at the cash register? Lion Joe Hunter maintains and stocks the displays and collects the money for Lions projects. Chairperson: John Hove - 268-4762 |
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