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A.J Robinson Deployment – One Good Deed After Another

The A.J. Robinson Foundation (501c3) was started in 1985 within Lions District 4-C6, to provide free mobile medical screening to underserved communities. The Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation Mobile Health Screening Unit (MSU) is a mobile trailer outfitted for providing health screenings that highlight risks for blindness, vision problems, but also blood pressure, diabetes and hearing.

Our 6-Spot-Vision cameras are often used without the trailer to screen hundreds of students in grammar and middle school in all counties of district 4-C6 that include Santa Clara, San Bonito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. All workers at the trailer are volunteers and the only expenses are for supplies, gas and insurance.

The Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation MSU is visible evidence of this successful District 4C-6 project within the various communities “We Serve” and is a great advertisement for Lions programs on sight, hearing, and diabetes. The MSU is available for community health screenings at community centers, fairs, events and also vision & hearing screenings at schools.  Each club in the district sponsors the use by completing the Lions AJ Robinson contract. Instructions can be found on the Lions District 4-C6 website. (AJ-R-Contract-Final-revised-9-2018.pdf (lions4c6.org))

For more information contact the Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation Scheduler, Lion Richard Conrad.

Report from the Monterey Fair event.
These are the results from the AJR health screening event at the Monterey County Fair per consent form information:

  • 23 screenings,
  • 3 eye tests,
  • 2 eye tests   referred for glasses,
  • 9 hearing tests
  • 22 diabetes screening using blood glucose testing 3 were elevated and counseled; 3 more who were slightly elevated due to eating at the fair within the past half hour.
  • 22 blood pressure tests done; five were above 140/90 and counseled; 1 was extremely high. She is under a doctor’s care and encouraged to follow up with her doctor.

We are proud to conduct these screenings this year in our new truck and trailer that replaced our 20-year-old unit.

We have also taken the unit out to many other events supported by our local Lions Clubs.  Apart from the Monterey Fair Grounds, the unit went out to ‘Day at the Bay’ and the ‘Healthy Living Fair’ at the Sacred Heart Community service center in San Jose in the past few weeks and will be deployed regularly in the coming weeks at similar events.

 

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Camp Via West – Heart of Camp event Sept 30, 2023

Saturday, September 30, 2023, saw the annual Heart of Camp event (formerly Via Ball) at the newly remodeled Ball Court at the Camp in the Cupertino Mountains.

Among others, the DeAnza Lions Club received a prestigious award, for longtime financial support and yearlong contributions from the garden by lions volunteers.

A more detailed report will be posted soon.

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Omar’s Dream Run – Record Participation

As in the past 10 years, De Anza Club members assisted at the registration desk at the 10th Annual Charity Dream Run.

The event was held on Sunday, October 15, at Hellyer Park in San Jose.

Lions Al, Barb, Eli, Jeff and Ray got tables and chairs from the storage, helped with the set up at the pavilion and were back after conclusion of the event to transport the club furniture back to storage

More details are forthcoming shortly.

Open Letter re OMAR-DeAnza Lions

Open Letter re OMAR-Lucile Packard

 

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Vision Clinic # 2 – Another Huge Success

A Vision Clinic was held on 10/14 at the Mexican Consulate in San Jose.
Approximately 300 patients were seen by 6 volunteer optometrists.
All who needed eyeglasses received them from the dispensary on the day, or the remaining 64 patients received
new eyeglasses sponsored by manufacturer, Zenni, a few days later.
18 patients were referred to Lions Eye Foundation for treatment of chronic complaints such as glaucoma and cataracts.
The clinic was sponsored by San Jose Campbell West Lions Club and by the Mexican Consulate.
Lions volunteers attended from 13 clubs in the District 4C-6 and from Brentwood Lions Club outside the district.
The next clinic is planned for April 2024.

Please watch the short video with one of the recipients of vision screening, and a new pair of glasses.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/K2fdSb5bfs68RWPw7

 

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Cupertino De Anza Lions Club Vision Clinic – A Success Story

On Sunday, April 23rd, 2023, at 8:00 AM 10 volunteer doctors and 70 non-medical volunteers (mostly Lions) gathered to run a free Vision Clinic at St John Vianney Community Center. Nine hours later 349 patients had benefited from a detailed eye exam and most of them had received recycled eyeglasses from the Lions inventory of glasses collected from schools, libraries, hospitals and banks.

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Earth Day 2023 – A Fun Day In Cupertino

April 22, 2023 – Earth Day all over the world, and in Cupertino, CA!

The Cupertino De Anza Lions Club was represented by a number of fellow lions and helpers, show-casing a beautiful display of sunflowers, free seed packages and hands-on seeding of sunflowers for the public, courtesy of the VIA-Lions Co-operative Garden (VIA Services and the De Anza Lions Club have been in partnership for over 35 years).

Read more here 2023 042223 Earth Day Festival – LionsClub Exhibit; Blog

                                                                    

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Food Drive 2022 – Another Great Success!

Thank you all for your support of another successful Thanksgiving Food Drive!  We just completed our seventh drop-off, to the farm workers in Watsonville, which wraps up the drive for another year!  In addition to the 170 families to whom we provided our regular pair of boxes, we also delivered over 50 turkeys and many boxes of non-perishable items to the farm workers.  Lion Al will give a final count of the total monetary donations; as of Saturday night over $5200 in cash donations for our drive, in addition to the food items were collected.
So much gratitude to every one of you who helped by:
– volunteering at the stores, the Odd Fellows Lodge, with driving, shopping and making deliveries
– donating to our “Sponsor a Family” program
– helping with planning and execution of the event
– spreading the word to your friends and families
Special thanks to Lion Charles for stepping up and running the entire effort at the Odd Fellows Hall for the whole weekend, to Lion Jeff for driving the reefer truck and donations and helping in every way possible, and to Lion Ray for his tireless planning efforts and work all weekend long.  Countless other Lions contributed endless hours of sweat equity, so a huge THANK YOU to you all!
A happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
Best,
Lion Claire
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Supplies for the Farm Workers in Watsonville

On Oct 29th, the DeAnza Lions once again organized a delivery of goods to the Farm Workers in Watsonville. 3 SUVs and a big family car were loaded to the top with collections of blankets, clothes, stationery, and other gently used items. Lion Kent extracted a very nice bicycle from his car, while Lion Steve and Ellen brought in a 55in TV set with wall mount. Numerous bags and boxes were emptied from Les’ car. The recipients were beaming with gratitude. A young man explained that they will get more donations over the next weeks. And on Friday of the second week in the month, they will display their donated goods on tables in their courtyard and fellow farm workers will     come by and select what they need or could use. Their biggest need, however, is food, like rice, beans, and cooking oil, as well as warm clothes for winter.

Let’s hope we can get great food donations during our food drive on the weekend before Thanksgiving!

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Wreaths across America – Dec 14th, 2019

National Wreaths Across America Day was on December 14th, 2019

Each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, our mission to Remember, Honor and Teach is carried out by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as at more than 1,600 additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea and abroad.

Lion’s Mort, Eli, Ann Harris, Ray and Ron attended the ceremony. After the ceremony we participated in laying wreaths on the veterans’ graves.

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7th Omar’s Dream Run – 20th Oct 2019

Omar’s Dream Run is in its 7th year, and like in the past few years, it was held at Hellyer Park in South San Jose. Our club provided extra tables and support for financial transactions. Lions Eli, Ron, Jeff and Mike looked after the hauling back and forth of tables and chairs, while Lion Al and Barb took care of the financial side. Lion Claire participated with her two girls, and all 3 got a medal! Way to go!

As usual the event was amazingly well organized with dozens of young students volunteering with the elaborate set up. Lion Al estimates that around $ 50k were donated to the cause – which will provide learning tools, like computers, to young hospitalized students who can follow their classes from their hospital beds.  As last year, Lion Claire’s friend Portia sent a little note and posted a few photos, too:

Hello! Here are some pictures of my niece and her classmate Coral, who Omar’s Dream sponsored after we connected them after the run last year! She is in remission 🎉❤️ and receiving maintenance chemo treatment. Her parents are both active military and they are being transferred to Columbus, OH soon, so we were so lucky to get to run with her this year!

More details to come