The Idaho Springs club collects discarded eyeglasses from around town and from nearby casinos. The eyeglasses are put together with eyeglasses that have been collected from other clubs for recycling. The Lions Club District 6 has arranged for the prescription glasses among them to be back-refracted so that the original prescription can be determined. They are then distributed to Lions clubs around the world, where they can be matched to people who cannot afford the glasses they need.
Lions Brandi, Annie, Jack, Sandy, Carolyn, and Mary gathered to do the work:
There were a lot of glasses:
Lion Mary used the industrial-strength dish washer at the Elks Club to make sure that all the glasses were sanitized:
