On Halloween of this year, Niverville resident Holly Rafferty saved a life—but it wasn’t the first life she’s saved. Rafferty has donated blood 100 times and plans to keep on giving.
Although Rafferty has been donating blood for a long time, she was particularly excited for the blood donor clinic being held in Niverville on October 31 since it would be her one hundredth donation and she would get to wear her fun, and extremely appropriate, Halloween costume.
Unfortunately, when the big day arrived, the weather was bad. The Canadian Blood Services (CBS) had some staffing issues and the clinic that day needed to be cancelled.
Rafferty was undaunted by these setbacks, though, and decided to head to CBS’s downtown Winnipeg home base to accomplish her goal.
“I thought, well, it’s a quieter day for me,” Rafferty says. “I want to be home at 5:00 p.m. to finish with Halloween and be ready for the kids. but other than that I think I can make it work.”
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