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DURHAM — The American Red Cross needs your help to maintain a stable blood supply for patients in need of lifesaving transfusions now and into the summer months. Before busy schedules set in, the American Red Cross is urging eligible donors to roll up a sleeve to help ensure a sufficient supply for patients in need.
Donors of all blood types are needed now to help accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant patients, and those receiving cancer treatment. Kenneth Reed gives blood in his son’s honor. When Trace was eight days old, he underwent heart surgery and received blood transfusions.
“It’s the least I can do. If it wasn’t for donors, he wouldn’t be here with us today,” said Reed. “I don’t call it donating blood; I call it donating life.”
Giving blood is an easy and thoughtful way to honor a loved one, who has relied on blood products, to follow in the example of a family member who gives regularly, or simply to help others.
As a thank you, those who come out to donate May 26 to May 30 will receive a Red Cross-branded visor, while supplies last. Make an appointment to donate blood by downloading the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting redcrossblood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
Donors can then also visit redcrossblood.org/cedarfair to enter to win one of three grand prize packages for four to Knott’s Berry Farm in California or Cedar Point in Ohio.
Upcoming blood donation opportunities:
* Durham — Wednesday, June 7, from 2 to 7 p.m, AmVets Post #13, 1049 Rt 136, Royalsborough Road.
* Lewiston — Wednesday, May 31, from 2 to 6 p.m., Raymond A Geiger Elementary School, 601 College St.; Wednesday, June 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Androscoggin Bank, 70 Lincoln St. (Bates Mill Complex)
* Lisbon — Monday, June 5, from 2 to 7 p.m., Holy Trinity Church, 67 Frost Hill Ave.
