Without a challenge from Helen Keller nearly 100 years ago, you may have never seen the Lions Club's impact on preventable blindness in your community. According to their website, Keller's appearance at the 1925 Lions Clubs International Convention included a call to members to "become knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness." In the years since, area Lions Clubs have initiated several different programs aimed at helping people with their eyesight, such as vision screenings at area schools and distributing reading glasses and sunglasses. Forestville-Maplewood Lions Club Member Tom Mueller says new technology has allowed their screenings to be even more effective, and they have been able to branch out to other areas that can also impact a person's sight.

Area Lions Clubs also contribute to the operation of its Wisconsin Lions Camp in Rosholt. The camp is open to adults and youth with blindness, deafness, or intellectual disabilities. The Lions Clubs' efforts are supported through many different means, such as the upcoming collection of deer hides during the hunting season and the Forestville-Maplewood Lions Club's Sportsman's Night Out Banquet at the Gala in Sturgeon Bay on October 24th.