Summerland students to participate in blood drive
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Students from Summerland Secondary School will donate blood in Penticton next week. The event is being organized by Rayman Klar, a Grade 12 student, who has organized blood donation events for the past two years. Klar, who is also a blood donor, said she is “grateful for the opportunity to …
16-year-old Alice Henderson survived a shooting in early May because of a surgical procedure that involved a significant blood transfusion. Alice wants to pay it forward with a unique blood drive. Alice’s mother, Nicole Henderson, has been by her daughter side every day since she was wounded in a shooting. …
An assisted living facility hosted a special blood drive Wednesday in honor of the son of one of their employees. Akilah Looney has worked at The Kensington in Hastings for 1.5 years on their memory care floor. Her son, Kingston Levarity, is ten years old. He’s had sickle cell anemia …
Lilly Poehler, a graduate of Hoover High School, has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. Poehler earned her Gold Award for her project, “Blood Drives Save Lives,” supporting awareness of the importance of giving blood. Poehler grew up going with her mom to blood …
The American Red Cross New Jersey Region honored five extraordinary women during the organization’s Celebrate Red! Gala earlier this month at The Westin Governor Morris in Morristown, New Jersey. Chatham residents Nicole DiMaggio, Michelle Clark, Melissa Fitzgerald, Marguerite White and Rosalinda Rubio-Williams received the Bob Clancy Culture of Caring Award. …
A young girl from Riverview, N.B. has battled back from cancer, and her and her family are celebrating by giving back the gift of life, by organizing a blood drive. Elizabeth Davis remembers that fateful day in 2014 like it was yesterday. “When we arrived we were told that Chloe’s …
Drakensberg Secondary School (DSS) was abuzz as learners rolled up their sleeves, not for academic work but rather to donate blood. The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) hosted a Scholar Blood Donor Clinic at DSS last Tuesday. Read Full Article
Southern Maine and Midcoast Maine will honor a young child’s cancer battle with a memorial blood drive. Community members are encouraged to come out to donate blood in memory of 4-year-old Bath native Madeline Marzen, who passed away in October 2017 after a brief, aggressive battle with a malignant brain …
For the second year in a row, the American Red Cross is holding a Garden City blood drive in memory of Robert Becker, a longtime local blood donor who was killed in a motorcycle crash in October 2017. The drive is scheduled for 1 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and 8 …
A valley mother has plans to host a blood drive in hopes of supplying her daughter and other families suffering with a lack of blood donations. Four-year-old Layla O’Bryant suffers from Cerebellar Ataxia. Basically, the antibodies in her bloodstream have been attacking her brain stem. Blood transfusions have helped her …