Students in the Carson City School District are seeing brighter futures thanks to the generosity of the Lions Club.
The Dayton Valley and Carson City Host Lions Club, in support of the early detection of vision issues in children from September 12, 2024, through January 16, 2025, donated nearly 2,000 vision screenings for all pre-kindergarten, first, third, sixth, and ninth-grade students throughout the Carson City School District.
The Carson City School District says that the Lions Club is well known for supporting vision health through such ventures as vision screenings, eyeglass recycling, and initiatives that make eye care affordable.
They say this school year, the vision screenings were also part of a larger national initiative led by LionsUSA, an affiliate of Lions International, where Lions across the United States come together to preserve vision and improve eye health for children and adults.
Further explaining that the week of January 13-16 holds great importance to the Lions worldwide, as it happens to be the same week of their International Founder Melvin Jones's birthday, which was on January 13, 1879. They say Jones was a visionary salesman from Chicago who founded the Lions more than a century ago, which now encompasses more than 1.4 million members in more than 200 countries.
