Sorrento Lions

By Judi Kembel

For many years, our club has been sending used eyeglasses to CLERC (Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre) in Calgary. A special thank you to Lion Terry Timms for collecting used glasses and for the continued support from these companies: In View Optical, Alpine Optometry and Evelyn’s Eyewear and Canadian Hearing Care all located in Salmon Arm. B.C. CLERC sends glasses to 90 different countries and on average, processes about 220,000 a year. Since 1996 they have distributed over 5.5 million pairs.

Due to the current Covid restrictions, all our planned activities are still on hold. The Garage Sale at the end of May and the Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast are still in doubt. We will just have to wait and see. We thank you for your support.

We did receive our Community Gaming Grant again this year and so will be able to continue with our usual community donations such as our annual student bursaries.

We continue to assist residents by delivering groceries from the Lighthouse Market all while maintaining physical distance and will do so as long as we are needed. Feel free to contact them at lighthouseorder@gmail.com.

Since all our fund raising projects have either been cancelled or suspended, once again, we would appreciate any ideas our community may have so that we may still be active while maintaining social distancing. You can send your ideas to sorrentolionsclub@ yahoo.ca . If you are interested in helping your community, please consider joining our club. If you are over 19 years of age (male or female) and would like more information about becoming a Lion, please contact the Sorrento Lions Club Secretary Lion Leona at our email address: sorrentolionsclub@yahoo.ca. We would love to hear from you! Check out our website at http://e-clubhouse. org/sites/sorrentobc/ .

We look forward to the time when we can resume all of our community activities.

Stay safe, stay calm and be kind.