Dover-Sherborn Community Notes (Dec. 4)
Breakfast with Santa; 'Bye Bye Birdie;' Lions Health Day; more

Tracking Eye Disorders In Statin Users; Predicting Visual Outcomes For Wounded Soldiers; Improving Glaucoma Tests With ...
This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, reports on eye disorders that may occur in people taking statins, on a new system that predicts soldiers' visual recovery after combat eye trauma, and on use of glaucoma patients' opinions to improve testing and treatment.

Doctors Romano: 50 years of caring for eyes of Houston
Spend a few minutes with Drs. Albert and Gerald Romano of Westheimer Vision Associates, and its easy to see how they?ve been successfully practicing optometry for 50 years.

Kids to get free sunglasses from Monday December 1
Carlisle Mason Optometrists to promote UV protection and eye care among children with free talks at schools and kindergartens and 5000 pairs of free sunglasses to give away.

Strohecker to speak at MU commencement
Robert Strohecker, vice president of the Mansfield University Council of Trustees and owner of Strohecker Vision Care, will be the speaker at Mansfield University's 144th Commencement at 1 p.m. Dec. 13 in Decker Gymnasium.

Local optometrist retires after 54 years
Dr. Duane Wallaker is a native of Kenyon, Minn.

Specsavers enters NZ market
If you wear glasses and you're sick of paying too much for them, change is on the way. New Zealand's $300 million optical industry is in for a shake-up with the arrival of a big new global player.

The Greenville Adcoate
Dr. L. Don Snellgrove has been selected as Grand Marshal for this year?s Christmas parade, said Francine Wasden, Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce Director.

Legislators' outside jobs raise questions about conflicts of interest
30 state senators and Assembly members have other jobs, and some vote on issues that may affect their financial well-being. Assemblyman Mike Eng, one of more than two dozen California lawmakers who hold outside jobs, was a steady vote for the Los Angeles Unified School District's interests this year at the same time his law firm was working for the district under a $550,000 contract. ...

Lions roar loudly on the Sunshine Coast
In 1964 a farsighted group of young men brought one of the world?s finest service clubs to the Sunshine Coast. On March 12 of that year, the first Lions Club was chartered on the Coast, and the Lions have been making a difference in people?s lives ever since.

A local act of kindness brings smiles to children in need
Staff Photo By: Darcie Thom 17-year-old Alyssa Luscombe will be personally giving charitable gifts to the underprivileged in Paraguay this coming December on behalf of Operation Christmas Child. By: Darcie Thom Christmas is the time of the year when friends and family gather together to celebrate the gift of giving, a time for cheer. There is nothing more [...]

Helping overseas charity
WHITCHURCH Ladies? Open Group presented a cheque for £250 to a representative of Vision Aid Overseas at its annual meeting last week. The money was raised by the group mainly from a jumble sale.

Diabetes: A silent but dire disease
One of the reasons diabetes can be so devastating is that much of the damage it wreaks on the body goes unnoticed for years. The symptoms are silent, but the consequences are dire, ranging from tingling in the toes and shifts in vision to amputations, kidney transplants, blindness, heart attacks and death.

Ophthalmology Dec.'08 research highlights
( American Academy of Ophthalmology ) This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, reports on eye disorders that may occur in people taking statins, on a new system that predicts soldiers' visual recovery after combat eye trauma, and on use of glaucoma patients' opinions to improve testing and treatment.

Doctors Romano: 50 years of caring for eyes of Houston
Spend a few minutes with Drs. Albert and Gerald Romano of Westheimer Vision Associates, and its easy to see how they?ve been successfully practicing optometry for 50 years.

Doctors Romano: 50 years of caring for eyes of Houston
Spend a few minutes with Drs. Albert and Gerald Romano of Westheimer Vision Associates, and its easy to see how they?ve been successfully practicing optometry for 50 years.

Doctors Romano: 50 years of caring for eyes of Houston
Spend a few minutes with Drs. Albert and Gerald Romano of Westheimer Vision Associates, and its easy to see how they?ve been successfully practicing optometry for 50 years.

Specsavers enters NZ market
If you wear glasses and you're sick of paying too much for them, change is on the way. New Zealand's $300 million optical industry is in for a shake-up with the arrival of a big new global player.

Doctors Romano: 50 years of caring for eyes of Houston
Spend a few minutes with Drs. Albert and Gerald Romano of Westheimer Vision Associates, and its easy to see how they?ve been successfully practicing optometry for 50 years.

Doctors Romano: 50 years of caring for eyes of Houston
Spend a few minutes with Drs. Albert and Gerald Romano of Westheimer Vision Associates, and its easy to see how they?ve been successfully practicing optometry for 50 years.