Where there’s a need, there’s a Lion

BY JIM SWANSON, HEWITT LIONS CLUB

The Hewitt Lion’s Club is a service-oriented organization dedicated to help improve the lives of our local communities. From fundraisers such as raffles, pecan sales, two golf tournaments and the generosity of local support, HLC was able to purchase two hand-held digital SPOT vision machines. Lion vision screeners are trained in the use of the machines to provide free digital vision screenings—enabling us to provide FREE vision screening to Midway ISD—focusing primarily (but not exclusively) on Pre-K and Kindergarten-aged children. If a vision problem can be detected before a child reaches the first grade, chances are very good that it can be fixed. Screenings are also provided to other local school districts, health fairs and at Mission Waco’s health clinic. To date, we have screened over 17,000, of which among 16,000 children, over 20% have been found to need further examinations by eye professionals.

HLC also serves by participating in MISD’s Special Olympics, sponsoring diabetic and “differently-abled” children to attend Texas Lions Camp in Kerrville at no cost to their families, collecting food for Food for Families and Central Texas Food Bank, Toys 4 Tots, funds for scholarships for Midway ISD students, collection of school supplies for Hewitt Elementary, collection/recycling of donated eye glasses to be used in third-world countries, and promotion of recycling aluminum cans and batteries.

HLC members also volunteer for various church causes, Meals on Wheels, Caritas, Salvation Army and Historic Waco. We have provided support for the Hewitt Public Library in their quest for helping the visuallyimpaired, provided volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, and assisted with spring maintenance at the Texas Lion’s Camp.

Our club is aging and could sure use younger help and ideas. If serving others is something that interests you, please contact jswanson@hot.rr.com or send a text to (254) 716-4712. We’d love to have you visit us!

In order to ensure the perfect work placement, our personnel service does our best to match specific types of jobs with employees who have the desired skill set. We have job counselors on site who are consistently interviewing candidates, which allows us to choose from a large employee base. We can be your temporary staffing company as well as your source for permanent and as-needed positions.

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