Donations

Each year the Putnam Lions Club unpacks its Sight Mobile, wraps thousands of pairs of donated eyeglasses to shop to those in need of vision assistant. The Lions and Leos this year sent out 2,489 pairs of glasses, as well as two hearing aids and two cellular phones, to the Lions International Eyeglass Recycling Center in Virginia, where they will be cleaned and graded for distribution. Since 2004 Putnam Leos and Lions have packed eyeglasses. The most they have packed in one year was, according to Greg King, 2,888. In total, more than 20,000 pairs of glasses have been packed and shipped. Photo courtesy of Greg King