LMSHU History

In The Beginning ...

The Newport News/Warwick Lions Club purchased a Sight & Hearing screening unit in 1978. It was a 27 foot Winnebago that cost $30,000, and additional funds were raised to equip the van. Members were trained in the use of the equipment and it became operational in August of that same year. That van was totaled in a traffic accident in 1981 and turned over to the Lions Medical Eyebank. They had it rebuilt and restructured it as a medical screening health van at a cost of $70,000.

In 1993 they turned the van over to the District and a committee was formed for the maintenance, operation and scheduling of the van. That committee sought incorporation as a separate, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, and in 1996 the Lions Mobile Sight & Hearing Unit of District 24-D, Inc. came into being.

Today's Unit ...