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The Chelsea Lions Club made a donation Feb. 18 to Chelsea Community Hospital. Past President Lion Norm Colbry (left) and Treasurer Lion Don Enderby present the $500 check to Occupational Therapist Lori Galicki and Helene Graham, Director of Therapy Services.
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The Chelsea Lions Club has found a new way to pursue its goal of helping the vision-impaired in the community.
The Low Vision Support Group meets at Chelsea Community Hospital as does the Lions Club, and both groups have a mutual interest in helping the vision-impaired.
It was just a matter of time before the Lions would decide to provide financial support to the group as an ongoing community service project.
"The Chelsea Lions have taken on a new project and 'adopted' the Chelsea Area Low Vision support group," said club secretary, Lion Keith Bloomensaat.
"We got letter from them saying they had this need and expenses that the hospital could not pay for, so we donated $500 to the hospital on Feb. 18."
Jennifer Berry, the hospital's marketing director, said the donation was used to purchase much-needed patient education and treatment materials for the hospital's Occupational Therapy vision rehabilitation program.
"The vision rehab program helps patients with many different visual problems including neurological problems, low vision, and post-trauma vision dysfunction," Berry said.
She also noted that the Lions Club expressed its appreciation and gratitude to the hospital for providing a conference room for their meetings for many years.
According to Bloomensaat, the support group has about 30 members.
"It's for people with eye injuries and eye defects, and it's run by Lori Galecki through the hospital's occupational therapy department," Bloomensaat said.
He said the Lions Club expressed an interest in adding the support group to its standing list of organizations it financially supports every year.
"There's a lot of people in this community who could really use this group," he said.
"We saw a win-win situation for them and us, and we told them this is probably the first of many things we could do for them in the future."
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