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Media Community Blood Drive this Weekend
It is recommended that donors schedule appointments for the blood drive.
The 2nd Annual Media Community Blood Drive is scheduled for this weekend and it's recommended that potential donors schedule appointments.
The American Red Cross blood drive will be held on Sunday, Feb. 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the .
Appointments are appreciated and donors can sign up to give blood by visiting: http://www.redcrossblood.org/make-donation, and using Sponsor Code: 0222092.
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Each blood donation helps children and adults with cancer, transplant patients, trauma victims, pre-mature babies, children with sickle cell disease, and other sick patients. Donations also help our local first responders, including police officers, firemen and EMTs, injured in the line of duty.
The simple truth:
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- One donation can help save up to three lives.
- Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood.
- More than 38,000 blood donations are needed each day.
- More than one million new people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Many of them need blood, sometimes daily, during treatment.
- A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 pints of blood.
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