News Release: June 5, 2002
Contact: Janice Osborne, Manager-Media & Community Affairs
(610) 865-4400, ext. 262
The American Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley urges residents to mark their calendars this month and give blood. Blood donors with O-Negative and B-Negative blood types are especially encouraged to give blood.
The Red Cross bloodmobile will make the following visit:
Monday, June 10, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. -- Nesquehoning Recreational Center, West Railroad Street, Nesquehoning.
American Red Cross Blood Services, Northeastern Pennsylvania Region (NEPA), supplies 41 hospitals with blood and blood products in 21 counties in Pennsylvania and three in New York.
Most healthy people who are at least 17 years of age, and who weigh 105 pounds or more, are eligible to donate blood. Donors are required to wait 56 days between donations. For more information, please call 1-800-GIVE LIFE. Please bring some form of ID.
The American Red Cross is not a government agency. All Red Cross disaster assistance is an outright grant. It is made possible through the generous voluntary contributions by the American people of time, materials and money. The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, that provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
The American Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley serves more than 660,000 residents in Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton counties. Last year the Red Cross provided health and safety education training and emergency relief services to more than 15,700 Lehigh Valley residents.
For more information about the local Red Cross, visit our Web site at www.redcrosslv.org.
