Leo Club collecting used glasses

With fright night, a.k.a. Hallowe’en, only five days away, the local Leo Club has cooked up its own way of collecting treats for the spooky holiday.
“Sight Night” is a program, sponsored by Lions Club International and Lenscrafters, that will see the collection of prescription and nonprescription glasses for distribution in Third World countries.
“We want to raise awareness for things the Lions Club stands for,” said Heather Newman, acting president of the Leo Club (the youth arm of the Lions Club), citing things like blindness and disabilities.
The program encourages local residents to donate old or unwanted pairs of prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses, less their protective cases, by putting them in drop boxes located around the community.
All the eyewear that is collected will be sent to Lenscrafters, which will clean, repair, and classify the glasses by prescription. They then will be distributed to needy individuals in Third World countries.
Drop boxes are located Canadian Tire, Tim Hortons, the Fort Frances Chiropractic Centre, Safeway, The Place, and the Fort Frances Public Library until Hallowe’en, when volunteers will collect the glasses.
“Sight Night” is the Leo Club’s first official activity. They did participate informally in this summer’s “Relay for Life” and felt they could do more.
The club plans to get involved in other projects in the near future, such as “Project Christmas Present,” which sends age and gender gifts to Third World children, and possibly the “Polar Plunge” on New Year’s Day.
“I’m thinking about it. . . . Okay, I’ll do it,” said Doug Judson, a Leo Club member and president of the FFHS Student Executive Council, of the “Polar Plunge” while being pressured by Newman and acting vice-president of the club, Sara Hallikas.
Judson also added Leo Club president Tyson Dennis would be doing the “Polar Plunge” if he was.