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September 14, 2012

Lions Club tourney helps children get glasses

Staff Report Gainesville Daily Register The Daily Register Fri Sep 14, 2012, 08:22 AM CDT

Gainesville — The Gainesville Lions Club annual charity golf tournament is set for tee-off at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Gainesville Golf Course on Highway 82.

And as in years past, the cause is helping fund eyesight expenses for local children in need. The organization raises several thousand dollars each year to provide eyeglasses and vision examinations for youth whose family cannot afford the costs.

An estimated 50 children receive the care necessary due to the contributions.

“If the child can’t see, he’s not going to learn,” Gainesville Lions Club President Dean Mendenhall said in October.

The upcoming golf tournament has a “two-man scramble” format, and the cost of $120 per team covers the green fee, golf cart and lunch plus a two-shot mulligan for each player. It can be used anywhere for a stroke-for-score, excluding cash holes.

All prizes will be based on number entries into the tournament, and during the event, hole sponsorships are available from $50 to $200.

Locally, Lions Club members meet weekly at the Neu Ranch House and marshal resources for children in the Gainesville and Callisburg school districts. They maintain arrangements with area optometrists for exam discounts and keep their funds up through benefit golf tournaments, luncheons, public donations and an annual mop and broom sale.

“It adds up,” Mendenhall said in October.

Lions Club International has always maintained a steady emphasis on medical outreach. Its involvement with eyesight improvement began in 1925, when Helen Keller addressed a Lions convention in Ohio and urged members to act as “Knights of the Blind.” More than 1.3 million people in 205 countries are currently affiliated with the organization and contribute to a stream of worldwide outreach that addresses not only vision treatment, but the treatment of hearing and diabetes. The international Lions foundation has also fostered programs for Habitat for Humanity and Special Olympics.

For more information about the golf tournament, call (940) 665-7151 by Sept. 26. For more information about the organization, visit www.lionsclubs.org.

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