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Iowa Lions Eye Bank celebrates 70th anniversary at Strikes for Sight
Monday, September 29, 2025
On September 13, 2025, Iowa Lions Eye Bank marked its 70th anniversary with the Strikes for Sight fundraiser at Colonial Lanes in Iowa City. The event honored decades of sight-saving work and featured a powerful simulation of Fuchs Dystrophy, allowing attendees to experience vision loss firsthand.
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Retired attorney able to see again after corneal transplants
Monday, November 17, 2025
Iowa Lions Eye Bank encourages corneal transplant patients to write to the loved ones of those who donated the tissue used in their surgeries, to express their gratitude. Retired Attorney Karl Nelson wrote his donor that he was inspired to register as an eye, organ, and tissue donor himself, and actively support and advocate for Iowa Lions Eye Bank.
Longtime Iowa electrician's gift helps vision researchers
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Although Doug Kahler had cancer, he was still eligible to be an eye donor, because unlike with tissue and organ donation, a cancer diagnosis does not often preclude the gift of sight.