Red Cross Bloodmobile tops goal in Kane

February 7, 2013

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Photo by Amy Geer – Some of the volunteers at Monday's bloodmobile, sponsored by the American Red Cross, include, left to right: Judy Lockwood, Karen Ryding, Judy Haight, Josephine Lauer, Judy Austin, and Martha Kulka. A total of 41 Kane area residents volunteered to give blood. A total of 32 units were collected.

The American Red Cross Bloodmobile visited Kane on Monday and exceeded its goal.
The blood collection program was held in Bartlett Hall at the First United Methodist Church on Greeves Street. Nurses and phlebotomists from the Red Cross Blood Center in Buffalo conducted the blood drive.
The quota for the day was to collect 31 “full” units of blood in a six-hour period for the Bloodmobile stop.