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Show Sid & See with Stein "SKi With Stein and Save Sight!" Utahns can do exactly this, by participating in the first annual "Sight Saving Ski Spectacular," sponsored by the Utah Society for the Prevention of Bindness. During November, December and January, Society members and volunteers will be asking Utahns to make a $1.00 contribution contribu-tion to the Society. Contributors in turn, will be given a ticket which will entitle them to be part of a drawing for a ski package, which will include a half day of free skiing with Olympic skier Stein Eriksen, the Society's honorary Sight Saving Chairman. The winner will also receive a day pass at Park City Ski Resort, rental skis and lunch with Stein. According to Stein, contributions contribu-tions are voluntary and tax deductible, and will be used to increase the Society's sight conservation activities in Utah, including glaucoma and preschool screening clinics and industrial safety programs. "Today one half of all blindness is preventable," the sight saving chairman, emphasized. emphasiz-ed. "We must work together to save the sight of our citizens. Please ski with me and prevent blindness!" |