Greatest Person
Raise Your Glasses: Local Optometrist Wins Beacon of Hope
Dr. Joel Jenkins recently took home the community involvement award for his work in Georgia and abroad.
If you're reading these words through glasses or contact lenses, thank an optometrist. If you're reading them without vision correction, you may have good genes to thank. But if you're one of the thousands of people who have been helped all over the world – often free of charge – by the 2011 Beacon of Hope award winner, thank Dr. Joel Jenkins. Jenkins was awarded earlier this month by the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation, an organization that helps low income Georgians get the vision correction they need. The award goes to one optometrist who goes above and beyond to be a community leader and “who just is very interested about access to health care for all the people in his community and abroad,” said Christina Lennon, executive …
