WATERLOO — Staci Boon got her first pair of eyeglasses when she was 9 years old.
Suddenly, she could see the chalkboard in her elementary school classroom and count the buds on trees. Colors appeared richer. Her once-blurry world became crystal clear.
It was at that moment Boon decided to be an optometrist. “I wanted to give that experience to other people,” she recalled…