On July 20, Gilles Brunet walked into the mobile blood donor clinic set up at the Vankleek Hill community centre to donate blood for the 165th time.

Born and raised in Hawkesbury, he had to be rushed to the hospital in the early 1970s after getting his leg caught in a hay bayler. He lifts his right pant leg and uncovers a craterous scar in his calf.

“I don’t remember if I needed a blood transfusion,” he says. But his time in the hospital is what kickstarted his desire to donate.

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