By Dr. ANNE NIELSEN
Kansas State School for the Blind Field Services

TOPEKA — Dr. Kendall Krug was awarded the Claude M. DeVorss award for his outstanding work with the Kansas Lions Statewide Low Vision Program (KanLovKids), by PID Gene Vogel and Lion Sylvia Reinhardt at a recent training in Topeka for the Kansas Teachers of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

KanLovKids is a program administered through the Kansas State School for the Blind to provide vision evaluations to students who have low vision from birth to 21 years of age.

This is the 10th year that the Kansas Lions Sight Foundation has donated $10,000 per year to subsidize the cost of low vision evaluations. The KLSF has given the KC Blind All Stars to date, $100,000 since 2006. One hundred fifty students are evaluated in this program every year.

Submitted by Jim Huenergarde, Hays Lions