A Must-See Mecca

Neon lights, casinos and Siegfried & Roy, I'm off to Las Vegas, Nevada today not to gamble but to meet an extraordinary individual. A man who started an organization that helps children in need of eye operations in third world countries. Agencies estimate that over fifty million people worldwide are currently blind, including 2 million children. A whopping eighty percent of the world's blindness is avoidable, treatable, or preventable. His organization is called Vision Quest and where better to interview a doctor who cures blindness than in a city known for its visual attractions? Odds are I won't have time for the Mirage's world-famous white tigers or the fountains of Bellagio or oh drats, the Elvis-a-Rama Museum because I'll be too busy videotaping Serge Roetheli's hero. Still, in a city this crazy who knows what stories I'll be sharing by tomorrow!