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SERVICE: Matt Lewis spoke to current and prospective members of a diminished Briones Lions Club last Thursday, in Bolinas. “We’ve always done without saying, but we need it now,” he said.   Silas Valentino
Matt Lewis found himself in a crisis in 1989, when his daughter was born with an inguinal hernia and a cyst on her inner arm. It required surgery at a cost of $1,400, and he had no medical insurance. Then came an unforeseen knock on his door one morning from a member of an unsung local organization:

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