The Lions Club is offering free vision screenings at the Alaska State Fair. Using a high tech piece of equipment called "Plus Optics," volunteers can screen people for potential problems.
"We discovered people were hiding their problems with their eyes," Girdwood and Turnagain Lions Club Member Robert Galle said.
It's not a diagnosis, according to volunteers but people should use the results to judge whether they need to see an optometrist.
"One eye was way stronger and so he was compensating for it," Theresa Walton who had her son screened last year said. "The eye screening showed that there was an issue so we could get him to the doctor right away."
About 80 to 100 people are screened daily, according to Lions Club Members. Twenty percent of the people screened are referred to optometrists.
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