    
White Cane Days
The Gridley Lions Club participates in "White Cane
Days". During White Cane Days Lions collect money for local, regional,
national, and international sight conservation projects. When you see Lions
members sell the little White Canes at your local store, please consider
the many sight conservation projects you support when you donate such as Youth Eye Screening,
the purchase of Glasses, the Lion's Eye Foundation,
etc.
Some pictures from our Fundraising effort on the 9th of
February 2002:
 
 Lions' dedication to sight received its
first big step when George Bohnam, then the Peoria Illinois Lions Club president, devised
the red-tipped WHITE CANE to help the blind become mobile, and to tell all who saw it that the
bearer did not see.
A second big step came when a small Lions Club in Monterey Park, California, needed more funds than could be
raised from their membership. They invited others in their community to share in their Sight Fund. The theme
would be WHITE CANE DAYS. The receipt for a contribution would be a miniature white cane. This project was
so successful that neighboring Lions clubs asked for the little symbol. Within
three years, it was chosen as a fundraising project to help all clubs in the California-Nevada multiple district
to finance big things in sight serving work.
That first effort in 1951 resulted in raising $500 - and 30 neighboring clubs joined in the following year.
Today, WHITE CANE DAYS results in millions of dollars collected annually for sight related Lions services.
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