Except for a few slip-ups, Sonya Binns Lawrence has been donating blood every three months since the 1980s and will be making her 100th contribution today – making her the top female blood donor in Jamaica. Speaking with The Gleaner after being recognised at the Kencot Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Andrew,
Three-year-old Amelia Saunders loves to play with toy cars. She laughs as she pushes them along the floor in the living room, with her parents Doug Saunders and Veronica Vardy looking on. Without Canadian Blood Services and blood donors, she probably wouldn’t be here today. Amelia has leukemia. Since her
Richard Packman first donated blood after a family at his church organized a blood drive because their child had been diagnosed with cancer. More than two decades later and after more than 1,000 hours, Packman sat Friday morning in a blue chair inside Vitalant’s office in the James R. Thompson
Many people have never given blood, but one Chicago man has now done it 500 times. Seventy-four-year-old Richard Packman went to a donation clinic put on by Vitalant (formerly Lifesource) at the Thompson Center Friday morning, for his milestone moment. The former Marine first donated blood in the early 1990s
Paula Lopatosky, a Southington resident, is hosting her ninth annual blood drive at Grace United Methodist Church at 121 Pleasant St, Southington CT in honor of Plainville residents Daniela and Matteo Ciriello on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30p.m. Daniela is six years old and was diagnosed with Beta
FROM first impressions, 65-year-old Tung Yiu Hung seems like any normal, healthy senior citizen. Delve a little deeper into his background though, and one will soon discover that the sexagenarian is actually quite out of the ordinary. Tung, setting an exemplary example for blood donors in the country, has bled
Looming shortfall of blood drives could impair patient care. Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. To help meet the constant demand for lifesaving blood donations and prevent blood shortages this winter, the American Red Cross is urging individuals and organizations to be winter heroes by hosting a
David Butterworth does not know exactly how many people are alive today it it wasn’t for him. But the 250 donations he has made as a blood donor will certainly have kept numerous people alive who would have died without his intervention. The 72-year-old, from Arthur Street, Bentley, first signed
