The Rockstar Roller Derby Team held a blood drive at Ringing Hill Fire Company in partnership with the American Red Cross and Brown Paper Tickets to combat the need for blood donations nationwide. Lower Pottsgrove was the kickoff location for the 2017 “Make ’Em Bleed” Blood Drive series, a tour of blood drives through December held by roller …
In just one session of donating blood you have the chance to save up to three lives. As KLEW News Reporter Kaila Lafferty is about to explain, not only might you save a life but you can change one as well. Grace is your average 18-year-old girl….except for one thing. …
A migrant worker from Henan has donated blood more than 200 times while shuttling between construction sites in 40 cities in the last decade. Kong Guochang, 48, from Zhoukou city, Central China’s Henan province, said he does it as he considers helping people in need a meaningful act. Kong learnt …
July is an especially hard month for the Springman family of River Ridge. Not only does it mark the death of their cherished little boy Kendall Oliver on July 31, but his he would have celebrated his golden birthday. Kendall Oliver would have turned 12 on July 12. But, the family …
It was a death that she could never forget that prompted her to begin offering the gift of life. Mary Cohen, 62, of Absecon, was one of scores of people on Monday, July 24, to participate in the Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Villa Marie …
The American Red Cross continues to face a critical blood shortage and is issuing an emergency call for eligible blood and platelet donors of all blood types. Overall, the summer months are among the most challenging times of the year for blood and platelet donations as regular donors delay giving …
DONATING blood was something Connor O’Driscoll was always meaning to do. But it wasn’t until the Maurice Blackburn Lawyers associate saw two friends go through serious medical conditions that he finally booked an appointment. Once he started, Connor continued booking appointments and gradually moved from donating whole blood to plasma. …
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 …
Hundreds of people in China’s eastern Hangzhou city queued up on Friday (July 22) to donate blood after an explosion on a busy street there killed two people and injured 45. Photos of scores of people queuing up to give blood and help the injured were reported by Chinese media …