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                                    HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4444

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representatives Leonard, Lewis, Bristow, Day, Lux, Doty, Grimm, Ballard, Valle, Hankins, Sutherland, Holland, Sayan, Vekich, Nealey, Appelwick, Bumgarner, Scott, Belcher, Cole, Fox, Fuhrman, Kremen, Sanders, B. Williams, Prince, Smith, Silver, Winsley, Fisher, Jacobsen, H. Sommers, Crane, Gallagher, Ebersole, K. Wilson, Walk, Todd, Nutley, Wang, Rayburn, Meyers, P. King, Peery, Hine, Locke and Basich

Read first time 3/2/88 and referred to Committee on

WHEREAS, Some citizens of the state of Washington cannot afford vision care; and

          WHEREAS, Doctors who are members of the Washington Optometric Association donated their time, their staff and their expertise to examine the eyes of fifteen hundred Washington state residents who were in need of eye care; and

          WHEREAS, The Lions sight conservation foundation of Washington and northern Idaho donated funds to purchase eyewear and ophthalmic lenses; and

          WHEREAS, Most of the fifteen hundred Washington state residents would have gone without proper vision care because of low income if it were not for the help given to them by the doctors of optometry and the Lions Sight Conservation Foundation;

          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the House of Representatives of the state of Washington, the Senate concurring, That support and gratitude be offered for all of the generous and humanistic efforts put forth by the Washington Optometric Association and the Lions Sight Conservation Foundation of Washington, for successfully planning and implementing what is now known as the "Vision Washington Project."