The Center for Vision Loss and ArtsQuest have announced that the agency’s Songs4Sight 2021 concert event will feature world-renowned Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields and will be held on Thursday, April 29. Strawberry Fields was slated to headline the agency’s flagship fundraiser this spring, but the event was canceled because of crowd restrictions related to […]
The Center for Vision Loss has announced an expanded slate of services to be delivered by phone or videoconferencing in June due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. All services, as listed below, are available exclusively for the agency’s enrolled clients with visual impairments from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh, Northampton, and Monroe counties. Support Group Meetings Monday, June […]
The Center for Vision Loss has canceled its May 2020 C. Well Sweepstakes drawing as the organization remains under Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home orders due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The agency also had canceled its April drawing, and it will draw additional winners during its final 2019-2020 drawing in June. No entrant will be allowed to […]
What if you had a child or grandchild who struggled for years and nobody knew why? That was the reality for the family of Christopher Fullenwider. Christopher had been examined by several physicians and specialists in the first four years of his life, and none of them could come up with the ultimate answer. What […]
The Center for Vision Loss has canceled its Songs4Sight 2020 concert event and its 2020 Monroe Focus Breakfast in anticipation of continued restrictions on public crowds. Songs4Sight 2020 – which was to feature Strawberry Fields, the world’s most renowned Beatles tribute band – had been rescheduled for June 25 in the Musikfest Café at SteelStacks […]
The Center for Vision Loss continues its reduced operations because of the COVID-19 pandemic through at least June 4 in accordance with orders from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The agency’s campuses will remain closed and its client transportation service will remain limited to critical medical and grocery needs during this time. Select services will continue […]
The Center for Vision Loss has announced several services to be conducted by phone of videoconferencing in May. These services were developed because of social distancing measures related to the COVID-19 global pandemic. All of these services, as listed below, are available exclusively for the agency’s enrolled clients with visual impairments in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh, Northampton, […]
The Center for Vision Loss has canceled its April 2020 C. Well Sweepstakes prize drawing because of the national COVID-19 pandemic and will draw 10 winning tickets in the following month. The agency has closed its offices through at least April 30 in response to the extension of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home orders to […]
The Center for Vision Loss has closed its offices and has limited its client transportation service to critical medical appointments and grocery deliveries that have been scheduled. The decision to close agency offices was made Wednesday after Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued a stay-at-home order for Lehigh and Northampton counties in response to the COVID-19 […]
Douglas Yingling, Executive Director of the Center for Vision Loss, has issued an update about the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. The statement is shown below in its entirety: “We are grateful for your encouragement during this COVID-19 virus emergency. The following is an update about decisions we have made and what is to come. “First, we […]