By Logan Wells, News Director | Logan@kymnradio.net
As the year comes to a close, the Red Cross is hosting several blood drives this week and next. The end-of-the-year push for blood donations is important to the organization, which is the largest provider of blood products in the U.S. Charlene Hamblin is a volunteer with the local Red Cross:
“We always welcome first-timedonors to come check it out,and once you get started, you kind of just find yourself coming back every 56 days.”– Charlene Hamblin, a local volunteer with the Red Cross on the KYMN Morning Show
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List of Upcoming Blood Drives:
- Friday, 12/19 – at Northfield YMCA from 8am – 2pm
- Friday, 12/19 – at Northfield Public Library from 10am – 4pm
- Monday, 12/22 – at The Grand from 9am – 3pm
- Friday, 12/26 – at Cannon Strength from 9am – 3pm
- Monday, 12/29 – at Arcadia Charter School from 10am – 4pm
- Tuesday, 12/30 – at Merchants Bank (south) from 9am – 3pm
A regular blood donation takes about 1 hour to complete; find more information about donating blood for the first time here. Hear more from Hamblin on Friday at 8:40am regarding blood donation.
The Red Cross needs 13,000 blood donations daily and serves 26-hundred hospitals across the country.
You can sign up for blood drives by going to redcrossblood.org or by calling 1-800-RED CROSS.
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