Lions Joe Rovansek, Diana Amsbaugh, Bill Szymanski, Tom Simpson, and Mike Greeley represented our Club conducting vision & hearing screening at Saint Luke School in McLean, VA. 

Afterwards, we received this email from the school nurse: Good afternoon, We had a fantastic group of Lions Club volunteers at Saint Luke Catholic School for hearing and vision screenings. In total, 37 students were screened for both hearing and vision (24 3rd graders and 13 7th graders). Of those, 1 student was referred for vision in 3rd grade and 1 student was referred for vision in 7th grade. Everybody who was screened for hearing passed the test! Thank you so much for helping me coordinate all of this, and I hope to meet you in person next year! Blessings, (School Nurse)

Photos below: Lions screening team and school nurse; Lion Diana operating hearing screening console

One purpose of the Fairfax Inter-Service Club Council (ISCC) is to share information about service club operations.  At the Feb 4th ISCC meeting, Lion Treasurer Mike Rumberg gave a great talk about technology useful for service club financials.

Lion Mike spoke about the evolution (and pros & cons) in Fairfax Lions Club financials:

• From entirely manual pen and paper Club records, mailing member invoices with members mailing payment checks, and all manual recording of cash/check charity sales; 
• To EXCEL electronic data records;
• To QUICKBOOKS for all Club financials for both charity and admin accounts, to invoice members, and to generate tax reports;  
• To SQUARE for charity fund raising sales (using SQUARE hardware to accept customer credit card payments, in person or on-line);
• And finally, to our current progress using ZEFFY

FX lions to donate $25,000 to INOVA Lions Eye Clinic to treat Glaucoma patients.

In FX Lions 75th year of serving our community, we will equip the area’s only free advanced eye clinic with this special machine for Glaucoma patients.

Please consider donating to the FX Lions; your contributions will increase our ability to serve others!

Silvia Nakasone, Director of the Lions Eye Clinic, and Katie Coyle, Senior Director of Philanthrophy for INOVA Health Foundation, tell FX Lions about the successes of the eye clinic.

Read about the INOVA Lions Eye Clinic at: https://www.inova.org/locations/inova-lions-eye-clinic

Fairfax Lions Club picks up donated eyeglasses from numerous locations in the Fairfax County area, and takes them to the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center of No VA, http://lercnova.org. At LERCNOVA, volunteers inspect, clean, sort and package the eyeglasses to go with medical mission teams around the world. Medical professionals on the mission teams dispense the eyeglasses to people in need.

Lions FOCUS on vision programs, thanks to Hellen Keller’s inspiration, in 1925.