PARIS – Norway/Paris Lions Club members will attend the 2007 Business Showcase on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, Paris, to raise funds as part of the annual “White Cane Day.”

Funds donated by community members will be given to the Maine Lions Sight and Hearing Association to be distributed to organizations in need throughout the state.

Blind and visually-impaired people in many countries use the familiar white cane with a red band at the bottom. Lion George A. Bonham of the Peoria, Ill., Lions Club invented the simple device in 1930. Schools for the blind teach instruction in the use of white canes.

In their efforts to advocate for the blind and visually impaired, Lions clubs often purchase white canes, promote white cane laws in their communities, educate the public about white cane laws and advocate of “beep” traffic lights and other aids for the blind and visually impaired.

White Cane Safety Day is celebrated during October. Lions clubs publicize the needs of the blind and visually impaired. Norway/Paris Lions Club members, wearing yellow vests, will be located inside the main entrance.

The club has 25 members and meets on the first and third Monday of the month in the basement of the Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, corner of Main and Church streets, Paris. The social hour begins at 6 p.m. followed by a dinner cooked by the members of the church, followed by a business meeting or a speaker.

For more information or to get involved with the club, contact Carol Williams, secretary, at 743-7747.