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MEGA Mentors
Donated glasses to hold annual

recycled fund raiser

BY CARELYN SHEPPARD MEGA Mentors will host its
The glasses donated by citizens websites agree is that the recycling annual Fine Art Benefit and Sale and captured in Hollywood cinema.
through the Chester Lions Club centers all collect used eyeglasses on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, at 7 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to
donation boxes are refurbished – or at to provide them for distribution to at the historic Hippodrome Theater purchase an array of fine art pieces
least cleaned and graded according to optical missions around the globe. at 528 N. 2nd Street in Richmond. and silent auction items that will
the prescription – before being sent In reality, there are at least four Proceeds will be used to fuel MEGA’s directly benefit deserving students of
to Lions International for use in other recycling centers for eyeglasses programs and activities for the 2018- Chesterfield County Public Schools.
countries. Those glasses are collected in Virginia. There is the one in 2019 school year. To register for the event or
from the green mailboxes in front Roanoke for Western, Arlington In conjunction with the Freedom to make a donation, visit www.
of the south door of the Kroger at for Northern Virginia, Hampton Classic Festival weekend, this MEGAMentors.org. For more
Breckenridge Shopping Center where Roads for Eastern Virginia, and philanthropic event has become one information about the event or MEGA
Jefferson Davis Highway (Route 1) now Farmville for Central Virginia. of the best art shows on the East Mentors, call (804) 639-8774, e-mail
intersects with West Hundred Road This newest center is currently Coast. It will feature an exclusive MEGAMentors14@gmail.com, or
(Route 10), and in front of Wells in a church basement. It can use showing of striking artwork, a high- visit the website.
Realty on Centre St. The Chester the church’s dishwasher, and it tech silent auction, and great people, The trade school's mission
Lions also have smaller collection has two of the machines to read music and food. The nationally is to teach life skills, provide
boxes located inside Wal-Mart. prescriptions that have been donated renowned artists are trailblazers in meaningful learning experiences,
When you look up Eyeglass by Roanoke and another center. the areas of figurative, contemporary, and build leadership skills in
Recycling Centers on the computer Lions Clubs in the United States and abstract art consisting of African American and other
under Lions International, you will have been recycling used eyeglasses for originals, prints, and sculptures. This underrepresented Chesterfield County
find a number of different websites 80 years. Please continue to support the year’s featured artist is Willie Earl Public School students through
with quite a variety of information Chester Lions in their efforts to assist Robinson. His unique artistic vision mentoring, tutoring, experiential
that is not necessarily consistent. For Lions International, which adopted and collection of work have been field trips, and recognition. This is
example, one of them lists only six the Eyeglasses Recycling Program in celebrated in many galleries, put into accomplished through an established
sites in the U.S. for recycling and 1996. There are now eyeglass recycling permanent collections in Cottonlandia program based on four core values:
one of those six is in Roanoke. The facilities in at least eight other countries Museum and Delta Blues Museum, Respect, Responsibility, Effort, and
only information on which all of the around the world. Achievement.

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