Walk for Sight to begin at Amherst Pepsi Center

Lions Clubs throughout New York State, in conjunction with Lioness and school-based Leo clubs, are hosting a statewide Walk For Sight on Saturday, April 21.

The event is being held to raise money for Campaign SightFirst II, a three-year effort to raise a minimum of $150 million globally to combat preventable blindness and to restore sight to the estimated 41 million people who will lose their vision by 2020.

The Lions Clubs of Western New York, formally known as District 20-N, will hold their walk on the Ellicott Creek Trailway beginning at the Amherst Pepsi Center trail head, 1615 Amherst Manor Drive.

Registration begins at 10 a.m. inside the front entrance of the Amherst Pepsi Center. Registration is $5 per person; $1 for children aged 12 and younger. The walk , which begins at 11 a.m., can be any distance up to 3.4 miles. Refreshments and food will be available in the center's Sky Box upon completion of the walk.

Donations will be accepted. For more information, call 773-4437, e-mail 20nwalkforsight@ adelphia.net, or visit www.district20nlions.org and click on the "Walk for Sight" logo.