Centennial High School hosted a blood drive Nov. 20. A total of 220 units were collected by 182 donors, which could potentially save 508 lives. This year marked the highest ever collected for Centennial. This is the first time the school has partnered with Memorial Blood Centers, and Centennial was
Nothing means more than the gift of life through blood donation. Your plasma can help people fight a number of illnesses including cancer. The tiny cells help people regain their strength, fight infections and helps them through a quick and smooth recovery following cancer treatments. Now more than ever blood
The South Delta community rallied around a family donating blood at a Canadian Blood Services drive in Ladner this week. Carly and Ryan Walsh-Fraser’s four-year-old son Smyth has now recovered from a serious medical emergency last summer, so for the past two years the family, with the support of relatives
Kevin Coffey was on a trip to Toronto, Canada from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when his bus crashed on September 11, 2010. The Manhattan, Kansas native was a frequent blood donor. After his first blood donation in high school, he was hooked and wanted to keep helping. “He came home with a bandage and I said,
A church community is donating life in memory of a beloved member of their congregation following his death. Dozens of people showed up to donate blood at St. Peter’s Catholic Church blood drive Wednesday dedicated to Dan Needham. The church on Meyer Boulevard in Kansas City holds blood drives every
At 31 years old, a cancer diagnosis was not on Const. Matt Oakes’s radar. But after experiencing chest and jaw pain and a rapid 20-pound weight loss late last year, the Hamilton police officer was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Following an eight-month hospital stay, chemotherapy, many blood transfusions and
