The community continues to support a 10-year-old battling Leukemia for the second time
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The community is coming together to support a 10-year-old battling cancer for the second time. Nearly 100 people signed up to donate blood for Liam Lynch at Errick Road Elementary School in North Tonawanda Thursday. It is just one way people are showing their support for the brave young man. …
When Josephine Michaluk was 22, she was roped into donating blood with her older sister. “I decided I would join her and that was the beginning,” she recalled to Guinness World Records. Michaluk has been donating blood for nearly six decades – and now, the Canadian resident has broken the …
For his birthday, Osoyoos resident Tom Fritz got a unique gift from his youngest child. “I’m going to donate blood for your birthday,” Christine Fritz, who lives in Clayton Heights on the Langley-Surrey border, told him when she phoned him with best wishes on his 72nd birthday. “Thanks,” he said. …
Every two seconds someone receives a blood transfusion in the United States, according to OneBlood. The WEAR Cares annual St. Patrick’s Day Blood Drive helps save people’s lives — like what happened to two-month-old Valley Jo Bryan. Valley Jo’s family found out she had a brain tumor in February. Before …
Every other Wednesday, you can find Mike Adams sitting in the chair at The Blood Center in Metairie, Louisiana. By his own account, Adams is a quiet, unassuming suit salesman at a local mall. Others at the center call him the “Man with the Golden Arm.” After decades of donating …
Information has come to hand that well known local personality, Peter Stenner, has recently made his 70th donation of blood to the Blood Bank. Peter began making this generous donation approximately 25 years ago with the Australian Red Cross in Cobram. At that time, there were several other members of …
Giving back to your community can take many different shapes and forms. For 61-year-old Thorold resident Joyce Little, it’s donating blood, which she recently did for the 100th time. “I go pretty much as many times as I’m allowed to,” says Little, in an interview with ThoroldToday. “There’s so many …
A LITTLE boy living with cancer has created a special video – released on his sixth birthday – encouraging more people to give blood and raise awareness for the charity that supported him. Henry Turner, from Southend, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in April 2020, shortly after his third …
It’s been called the gift of life for a good reason. Large supplies of donated blood are used every day, and one Kansas City-area donor has given his share — and then some. Time and pints have added up for 72-year-old Terry Burns. When Burns donated blood on Wednesday, it …
On the court, Sam Griesel can be unstoppable. But in late 2021, while the Lincoln native was still playing for North Dakota State, an experience off the court ripped away that sense of invincibility. “I ended up on the ground, in and out of consciousness, and threw up a little …