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Our Latest Fundraisers and Projects

On April 4th and 5th our Club brought the Kansas Lions Mobile Screening Unit to Arkansas City. 120 people went through the Screening unit and had the following tests for free:

  • Eye Acuity

  • Hearing

  • Blood Pressure

  • Blood Sugar

  • Glaucoma

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  • Diabetic Retinopathy (if needed)

Not only did we have the many Lions volunteers to perform the tests but we also had these wonderful volunteers that made the screenings possible:

  • Lion Dr. Girvar Singh, MD

  • Carlene White, Optician

  • Dr. Kumar Dalla, MD, checked diabetic patients for any evidence of retinopathy.

  • Becky Petterson, CNA

  • Glenda Brantley, CNA

  • Lisa Grimsley, LPN

  • Cindy Traffas, Lab tech.

  • Cordelia Clapp, RN

  • Christi Rose, Hearing Instrument Consultant

  • Bonnie Mangrum

 

The Mobile Screening Unit at Country Mart.

 

The two hardest working Early Birds at the Mobile Screening Unit during the screenings at Country Mart.

 

The Mobile Screening Unit at the Fire Station for the Health Fair.

 

Chairman of the MSU Committee, Ed Kessinger (left) and some of the volunteers.

 

Cordelia Clapp, RN, actually said, "This won't hurt a bit."

 

Driver of the MSU, Wayne Gilbert explains the screenings available.

 

Lions Ed Kessinger, Mary Schneider, and Scott Cranford present a token of our esteem to the MSU Driver, Wayne Gilbert.

Fundraising Projects

  • Sell tickets for multiple drawings.
     

  • Participate in “Candy Day”, a statewide program to raise funds for the Kansas Lions Eye Research and Training Center at the KU Medical Center
     

  • Porkburger Sale at the Downtown "Hoedown".
     

  • Community Birthday Calendar Sale.
     

  • Girls Basketball Tournament.
                                                

  • Garage/Bake Sales
     

  • Lasagna Suppers
     

  • Spaghetti Suppers

     

  • Concessions at County Fairs and Walnut Valley Festivals

 

Dr. Dalla (standing in the back) watches as a Glaucoma test is performed.

 

Lion Dr. Singh, Carlene White, perform a glaucoma test.  The longest line at the Health Fair was for the Lions popcorn machine, manned by Lion Ed Kessinger in the background.

 

Carlene White applies eye drops.

 

From left to right, Dr. Dalla, Lion Dr. Singh, and Carlene White.

 

The Crash Test Dummies failed all the tests.

 

Deaf as a doorknob.

 

Glenda Brantley, CNA, finds no pulse whatsoever.

Early Bird's Contributions

  • Provides eyeglasses and vision services to the visually-impaired who cannot afford them.
     

  • Collects used eyeglasses which are analyzed and distributed to needy visually-impaired persons in Central and South America through the VOSH (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity) program. (Federal prescription regulations prohibit reusing them in the United States.)
     

  • From “Candy Day” contributions, we help provide funds for the Kansas Lions Eye Research and Training Center at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. (Raised more money, per member, than any other Lions Club in Kansas, for many years.)
     

  • Contributes to the Kansas Lions Sight Foundation, one of whose projects is the Kansas Lions Eye Bank. Contributes to the Kansas Lion Band Foundation which helps support the Kansas Lions Band program.
     

  • Contributes to the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), a worldwide disaster relief fund administered by Lions in a disaster area. ($10,000.00 from LCIF was used to help in this area’s recent flood disaster.)
     

  • Bestows the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award to deserving members. Which also goes to LCIF for humanitarian aid, wherever needed.
     

  • Gave to the California Disaster Relief in 1994 to help with a “Home Rejuvenation” program.
     

  • Sponsors High School Band Students to Kansas Lions Band to Lions State and International Conventions Sponsors High School students to Close Up Washington project.
     

  • Sponsors High School students to Ambassador of Music.
     

  • Sponsors the Kansas Lions Screening Unit.
     

  • Holds Pre-school Visual Screening programs most years to help in the search for “Lazy Eye” in young children.
     

  • Contributes money for diabetes research through the Lions Journey for Sight.
     

  • Was the first Lions Club in Kansas to contribute an amount equal to $25.00 per member towards the Kansas Lions Eye Research Million Dollar Endowed Chair. Contributes to the Cowley County Disaster Fund, through LCIF.
     

  • We ring the Salvation Army Christmas Bells many years.
     

  • The Early Bird Lions contributed a total of $3,142.53 to Campaign SightFirst. SightFirst is a worldwide Lions project designed to stamp out preventable and curable blindness. It is a most ambitious undertaking and it is already showing that it is not an impossible goal. Campaign SightFirst has been a fundraising arm of SightFirst.
     

  • The Early Bird Club pledged $1000 per year to Campaign SightFirst for each of the two Lions years, 1994-95 and 1995-96.