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Lions support camp for blind
children
The Jonesboro University Heights Lions Club was recognized January 4th at
its
weekly meeting for its donation of $450 to the National Camps for Blind
Children (NCBC), which will sponsor a blind child's stay this coming
summer
at a camp near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Ms. Norine Westerbeck and Linda
Turner, representing the NCBC, presented the club with a certificate of
appreciation for its recent donation. Ms. Turner is a former camper, and
Ms.
Westerbeck, from Maynard, who is also the President of the Pocahontas
Lions
Club, represents the NCBC, a national non-profit organization, in
northeast
Arkansas. The main focus of service projects by Lions Clubs world-wide are
ones which help people who are blind and/or those with visual impairments.
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The NCBC, which began in 1967 with a single
camp in Florida, now has two
dozen camps located around the USA and
Canada, including a winter camp in
Colorado. For more information about their
programs, see
http://www.christianrecord.org/site/blndcmp/index.php
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