Jack Dreyer
Jack Dreyer Elected President of Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions
Brian Curry
Palo Verde resident Jack Dreyer was recently elected president of the Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Club (SLBLC). Dreyer, a longtime SLBLC member, moves up from his position as first vice president. During Jack’s tenure, he has been awarded the Lion of the Year award for his tireless work with the club.
Dreyer grew up in Indiana and earned a mechanical engineering degree from Purdue University. He later went on to earn an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has served as an application engineer for various equipment manufacturers in the Southeast and the Southwest. After earning his professional engineers certificate, he has been working as an equipment engineer for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) fleet management for the past 12 years.
Married to his wife Linda (a fellow Sun Lakes Breakfast Lion who just went out as club secretary) for 52 years, he is the father of four daughters and grandfather to four. His past community service included serving in the Jaycees, a parent school advisory council, and as chairperson for a Cottonwood Palo Verde committee. Dreyer saw joining the SLBLC as a way to get further involved in community service. When asked for his goals during his term, President Dreyer said, “I am hoping to develop new opportunities and collaborate with members to engage with our Sun Lakes community. I intend to enhance our vision program with Lions International as a primary service objective and grow our club membership to offer more opportunities for involvement and service.”
If you would like to join the Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions, give them a call at 480-242-4356.
Sun Lakes (Evening) Lions Club
Now that school has started for most of the school-aged children in Maricopa County, Sun Lakes (Evening) Lions Club has once again started vision screening for the Sight for Kids program.
What, you may ask, is this? The purpose of this program is to identify those students with vision problems so that they may be further evaluated by an eyecare professional. This program is meant to fulfill the vision screening normally done by schools at the beginning of the school year, but more efficiently and effectively.
Screenings are done utilizing SPOT Vision Screening Machines. The Spot Vision Screener is a handheld and portable ocular screening device designed to help quickly and easily identify risk factors of amblyopia vision issues on patients as young as six months old.
The screening is done within a matter of seconds. Hundreds of students can be screened within a couple hours. This is not only a very effective screening but also a very efficient screening. We can do in a couple hours what might take a school nurse or other trained staff member days or weeks to accomplish, depending on the student population.
What are the signs of possible eye problems in children?
• Eyes don’t line up;
• One eye appears crossed or looks out;
• Eyelids are red-rimmed, crusted, or swollen;
• Eyes are watery or red (inflamed);
• Rubs eyes a lot;
• Closes or covers one eye;
• Tilts head or thrusts head forward;
• Has trouble reading or doing other close-up work or holds objects close to eyes to see;
• Blinks more than usual or seems cranky when doing close-up work;
• Things are blurry or hard to see;
• Squints eyes or frowns;
• After doing close-up work, your child says, “I feel dizzy,” “I have a headache,” or “I feel sick/nauseous; and
• Everything looks blurry.
Sun Lakes (Evening) Lions Club is dedicated to serving the children of our communities.