A Unique Bonding Experience For Local Father and Son
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Some fathers and sons connect by tossing around a ball. Harley and Kory Hoyt have strengthened their connection by donating blood platelets together. “It’s an irregular bonding moment, but it’s nice because I’m the second oldest of nine and it gives us a chance to hang out,” said Kory, 26, …
Every two seconds someone in America needs blood and a single donor can save up to three lives. People across the tristate signed up to donate blood at the New Year, New Life blood drive to help save a life. Lives like 18-month-old Amelia Webb. Her parents were preparing for …
In the process of coming up with a project to help him become an Eagle Scout, Danny McCall may have become a lifesaver. McCall, a 17-year-old Bear resident, teamed up with the Blood Bank of Delmarva to host a blood drive earlier this month. Those who donated blood would get …
A Massapequa family held a blood drive this weekend to help the holiday blood shortage in honor of cancer-surviving daughter. Massapequa cancer survivor Aliyah Petrone and her family know firsthand how critical blood supply is for those in need and held a blood drive this past weekend during a crucial …
Jerry Valdez had been a blood donor all of his life but six years ago, he needed a life saving donation himself. Valdez was hunting with a kid neighbor when he was accidentally struck in the back by a shot from a 20 gauge shot gun. The boy called 9-1-1 …
One Washington County woman has spent her retirement making a difference, and filling a void left by Marietta Memorial Hospital after the hospital stopped accepting blood donations. For the last five years Linda Miller has been coordinating blood drives at the Lowell Volunteer Fire Department. She says it all started …
A total of 142 people signed up to donate blood during Tuesday evening’s Red Cross Telethon, and some wasted no time fulfilling their promise — even if it’s been a while. NewsChannel 21 caught up with one of the donors on Wednesday who said his wife signed him for the …
An Orland Park woman says she wants to focus on helping other the way they helped her after a devastating diagnosis. “I just didn’t feel like something was right, so I went to the emergency room,” Marie Fuesel recalled. Fuesel was diagnosed with leukemia, but after receiving nearly 100 transfusions …
We all have that one teacher who inspired and motivated us in school. It was no different for Chethan Gowda. The quiet, introverted boy describes the bond he shared with his favourite teacher to be akin to that of a mother and child, and was understandably shattered when he found …
Family, friends, and teachers are banding together to help a family in need after a young man with autism is diagnosed with cancer. A blood drive benefit is being held on New Year’s Eve in Mobile in honor of an 18-year-old who just started battling Leukemia. Skevos Karavokiros, better known …