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Oak Cliff Lions Stay Busy
Lion Nia MacKay Dallas Oak Cliff Lions
NDSM Adult Vision Clinic
Lions Sight and Tissues Foundation, Oak Cliff Lions Club and North Dallas Shared Ministries have collaborative service providing adult full vision exam and glasses at no charge to low income patients. The free clinic is open every second Friday of the month and an optometrist doctor (volunteer) is provided on every service.
Patient registration is being done through the NDSM office every Tuesday and Thursday of the month. The vision assessments (pupil distance, segment height and frame selection) are done in the NDSM building, while doctor examination (dilation drops and eye lenses refractor) are done in the LSTF bus. Prescription glasses are being process within 2-3 weeks, and patients will be called to pick them up at the
NDSM location.
The October 13, 2017 clinic was staffed by six Oak Cliff Lions (right to left: Bobbi Smith, Suzanne Buss, Charlene Vezina, Senada Rustic, Sian Reilly, and Nia MacKay). In average of 23 patients were being served each time, 24 patients for this month. Two other lions present at the clinic were Lions Danny and Robert. Lion Danny Fletcher was 2016 LSTF president; Lion Bobbi Smith is a member of LSTF Board of Directors. For information regarding the NDSM Adult Vision Clinic please contact Lions Danny Fletcher at heavybelly2@aol.com or Bobbi Smith at bobbi80218@yahoo.com.
Meals on Wheels
OCLC Meals on Wheels certificate of appreciation awards have been presented to two Lions for their services on Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017 during its weekly program. For many years, the Oak Cliff Lions Club involves in the Meals and Wheels program (offers by Visiting Nurse Association), Lion Benny Brigham (a Lion since 1966, left) has been delivering the meals for 25 years, while Lion Shelby Starr (a Lion since 1994, right) has been serving for 16 years.
According to Lion Joe Jessing, chair for the
Meals on Wheels at Oak Cliff Lions Club since
1992, OCLC lions have regularly deliver 24
meals once a month, to seniors who are home
bound due to illnesses, advance age, or
disability and those who are unable to access
food sources in the area of ‘Route 808A’. The
meals are dropped off at the Cliff Temple
Baptist Church, where volunteers (meal
drivers) pick them up to be delivered. The whole
process (picking up meals and delivery) takes
approximately 3 hours. Currently Lions drivers serving Route 808A are, including PDG and PP Wayne Meachum, PP Steve Bayless and Marna Bayless, PP Charlie Tupper and Abby Tupper, Joe Jessing, Lonnie Goodman, Weaver Patterson, and our new Lion, Suzanne Buss. For Meals on Wheels information, please contact Lion Joe
Jessing at jjessing@aol.com.
"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than what they recieve."
Wilber Wright, Inventor
"Too often we judge other groups by their worst exmples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions"
George W Bush 43rd President
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