Ithaca Lions Club Projects
Below is a list of on-going activities and past projects
the Ithaca Lions Club participates in and supports:
Sight Projects:
- Vision Screening for preschool children
- Free Vision Clinic in partnership with Ithaca Free Clinic
¨ Eye Glasses and Eye Exams for children
¨ Eye glass collection and reclamation
Speech and Hearing Projects:
¨ Finger Lakes Region Hearing Foundation
¨ Hearing Exams and Hearing aids
- Hearing Aids collection and recycling
Other Service and Community Projects:
¨ High School student scholarship
¨ Bell Ringing for Salvation Army
¨ Salvation Army Storage Building
¨ Adopt-A- Highway Program
Other Past Service and Community Projects:
¨ BBQ Pit Roof at Cass Park
¨ Guiding Eye for the Blind
¨ Leader Dogs for the Blind Program
¨ Lioness Room at Cayuga Medical Center
- Built BBQ Pit at Cass Park
¨ BOCES Deaf and Hearing Impaired Students
¨ Providing TTY's for children
¨ Diabetes Screening
¨ Canine Helpers
¨ Vacation Camp for the Blind
¨ Project SightFirst
¨ Project SightFirst II
¨ BOCES Drug Quiz
¨ Election Day Vote Counting (50 years before changed to electronic)
Past International Understanding Projects:
- International Peace Poster Contest
¨ Ithaca Children's Choir Tour to Spain
¨ Uventa Children's Choir (Russia)
¨ Operafest Children's Choir (Malaysia)
Lions Foundations:
disaster relief around the word
