The Pomona Host Lions Club is asking local residents to bring non-perishable food items and used eyeglasses to the group’s collection table at the Pomona Band Concert performances each Thursday during July and August. The concerts are held at the G. Stanton Selby Bandshell at Ganesha Park in Pomona, beginning at 8:00 p.m. The Lions’ collection is open prior to the concert and during intermission.
All collected food will be donated to the Inland Valley Hope Partners’ Pomona Beta Center, where an average of 2,800 homeless or low income people are given emergency food each month.
The used eyeglasses, which are collected at the concerts, will be refurbished and distributed at Lions Vision Clinics through the Lions in Sight and the California Lions Friends in Sight programs. The Lions in Sight program provides glasses to the needy in developing nations, and Friends in Sight distributes free glasses at vision clinics in Southern California.
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For more information about the Pomona Host Lions, please go to www.pomonahostlions.org or write to pomonahostlions@gmail.com.