What better time than spring to give the gift of life. This is one way that we as Elks can help everyone. Yet fewer than 5 percent of the people who are able to give blood actually do so - and most of them give only once a year. That's why the American Red Cross works so hard to recruit new blood donors. Because hospital patients throughout our state need your help.
Help is easy to give.
All you have to do is take an hour and donate blood. Every blood donation you make can help as many as three different patients. People rushed to hospitals after a trauma, children fighting leukemia, fire fighters who've been burned, grandparents needing heart surgery or hip replacement. These are the kinds of people your blood donation will help. People like the ones in your neighborhood, or in your own family.