The October 29, 2011 Lions District 12-N Workday at the Eyeglass Recycling Center as reported by Lion John Merriss (Johnson City Lions Club). . .

Lion Ken Gough and I enjoyed the sunrise as we drove up to the recycling center In Roanoke, along with 3300 pairs of glasses from our Johnson City Club and quite a few from the Kingsport Club. 

With a lot of rain but no snow we got there around 9 AM and began working immediately; Ken cutting and making boxes and me, along with six other Lions, separating and preparing glasses for measuring and packaging for world wide distribution. Before the day was out we we’re able to prepare well over 20,000 pairs, probably closer to 25,000.

It was encouraging to work with our current District Governor and his wife, and more PDGs than you could shake a pair of bifocals with all of us literally getting our hands dirty.

Everybody worked hard and everybody had fun and we all felt a sense of doing some good even if we did miss a few football games or some goings-on we may have otherwise been engaged in that day. Personally, there was nothing better I could have done Saturday.

As a bonus, we brought back five large boxes of glasses (approximately 4,000 pairs) ready for immediate use and handed them off to Jim Barker who is a Missionary with the Johnson City Alliance Church. Jim is planning a Mission Trip to Peru, South America in the next few weeks and was delighted to get them and  assured us they would all be put to good use before the year is over.

All in all, a good day’s work.

View photos of 2011-2012 Service Projects here

Related posts or Pages:

1. Fall 2011 Eyeglass Recycling Work Trip Scheduled
2. Spring 2011 Eyeglass Recycling Work Trip Scheduled
3. Eyeglass Recycling Project – Oct. 2010