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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

 

 

 

 

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Our 10th Linus Blanketeering Evening – Oct 17th, 2019

On October 17th, our second LINUS blanketeering night this year took off at our usual location, the Odd Fellow Hall in Cupertino. Lions Leslye and Joan, as well as Lions Jenni and Carl had been shopping for approx. 50 pieces of fleece which were waiting on two tables to be turned into cuddly blankets for little human beings. About a dozen adults, lions and friends, a LEO from Monta Vista, and almost a dozen of kids, including brownies, were busy cutting and knotting fringes. After ringing the bell, the kids took the ready blankets to Sharon (our rep from the LINUS organization) and she as well as one of her friends did final quality control before attaching labels. Lion Leslye had provided refreshments which were gratefully accepted by young and old. Apart from a few blankets which still needed knots to be tied, about 45 blankets were completed within 2 hours. Thanks to all participants and to Lion Don for once again letting us use the big practical hall.

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Charity Bike Ride – Ride4Diabetes Sept 8th, 2019

Following our first Ride4Diabetes in August 2017, we continued our efforts to find a cure for Diabetes with the 2019 Ride4Diabetes fundraiser on September 8th, 2019.

A report and pictures of the event will be posted here shortly

 

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Student Speaker Contest – Zone Level Event

Lion Ray, Zone Director and Host of the Zone level Student Speaker Contest is sending a big thank you to Lions Al & Barb, Don, John, Ron and Herb as well as friends of DeAnza Lions that made the Zone Contest possible.
Special thanks go to Lion Don Lang for letting us use the Odd Fellows Lodge for the contest.
All three speakers were impressive. This year’s winner, Amita Mahajan from Monta Vista High School, was a very creative, eloquent and forceful speaker and was awarded $150. She will go on to the Region Contest, which will take place on March 19th, 2018, at the Sunnyvale School Board Office, 819 W Iowa Ave. Sunnyvale. Time to be announced.
The winner of the MD 4 contest will win a total of $21,500.
This is another great community effort by the Lions that was started in the late 1930’s.
I urge you to attend the next contest and be proud of our youth and future.
Great to be a Lion.
Lion Ray