Written by Kelcie C. McCrae World Blood Donor Day honors those who give while asking for more Nearly 3,000 people around the world owe George Gantz and Bob Heiser thanks. For more than 50 years, this duo has donated roughly 125 gallons of blood and platelets combined at the American Red Cross in Green Bay. [...]
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June 14, 2011 is World Blood Donor Day – a day set aside to celebrate those who donate blood to help save lives without expecting anything in return. It is also a day to raise awareness about how a safe and stable supply of blood products is vital for hospitals and patients. This year, World [...]
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Posted on National Red Cross Blog on June 7th, 2011 by Gloria Huang This post is cross-posted from the UPS Blog. As a long-time partner of the American Red Cross and a member of the Annual Disaster Giving Program, UPS provides both financial support of our disaster response mission, and shipping assistance to get relief [...]
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The American Red Cross has dispatched disaster volunteer, Hope Koestner, LPN, of Green Bay, to Springfield, Massachusetts to assist with the tornadoes that struck the East Coast almost one week ago. She will be assisting in the area of Health Services. Koestner will be using her skills as a licensed health care professional to assess [...]
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Have you called to schedule your CPR/AED Training? If not, what are you waiting for? You could save someone’s life! Story by Andy Duchow, American Red Cross volunteer June 1-7, 2011 is CPR/AED Awareness week. It is a time where the Red Cross focuses on increasing awareness of the importance of CPR and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) [...]
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Accepting a check for $3,119.50 from the proceeds of the Fond du Lac Fire Department Brat Fry is Sherry Holmes of the American Red Cross. Making the presentation are Fire Chief Peter O’Leary and Engineer Troy Haase, coordinator for this year’s brat fry that was held on April 29. The Red Cross Disaster Action Teams [...]
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Thursday, June 2, the American Red Cross was called toHarrison St, inNeenahto assist the families affected by an early morning 12-unit apartment fire. Seven volunteers assisted on scene. To-date we have assisted six families for a total of 21 people. We are waiting to hear from four additional families in the fire to see if [...]
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Workers continue to help tornado victims in Midwest, South The American Red Cross is responding as rising rivers force people from their homes in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, and Red Cross workers are preparing for additional flooding in several other northwestern states as rivers threaten to overflow their banks. More than 200 people [...]
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Berlin, WI, May 31, 2011 — American Red Cross volunteer Joyce Petit, of Berlin, will be leaving today at 4:00pm for Jopin, MO to help the people impacted by the devastating tornadoes to hit that area just over one week ago. Joyce is assigned to go out to assist in client casework. As a client [...]
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