OXNARD : Letters Raise $1,300 to Help the Blind
Lions Club member Ed Paul sent out a few hundred letters to his brokerage clients last month, requesting donations to help the blind. He received more than $1,300 for the club’s White Cane campaign.
Paul, a 15-year member of the club and president of Walker and Paul Financial, won the Loyal Frazier White Cane award of the Oxnard Noontimers Lions Club, for raising the most money for the blind. He surpassed Oxnard attorney Loyal D. Frazier, the longtime fund-raising leader for whom the award is named.
The club’s White Cane program has provided money for a machine used in the Port Hueneme school district to make copies of books with enlarged type, to pay for eyeglasses for needy children, and to buy transcribing services and transportation for the blind.
In June, 12 Lions Club members went with Casey Cook, a blind and deaf student from Rio Mesa High School, on a rafting trip on the American River. They also sponsored Cook’s trip to the 1988 Special Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
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