Red Cross making emergency call for O-neg, other blood donations today

Press release from the American Red Cross

The Red Cross has issued an emergency request for donors of all blood types – especially O-negative, A-negative and B-negative – please make an appointment to donate.

This summer, when you give blood you could give someone time to make their own stories – watching fireworks, having a picnic, rooting for the home team.

What if you could give someone a summer of stories? With the Red Cross you can.

Every pint of blood a donor gives cPhoto of drops of blood.an save three lives.

The drive is open to anyone qualified to give and it only takes around an hour.

Buncombe County Blood Drive
Wednesday, August 14
10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Administration Building
200 College Street
Conference Room

Call Samantha Holcombe at 230-6322 or go to www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code buncombecounty to schedule your appointment.

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Editor Margaret Williams first wrote for Xpress in 1994. An Alabama native, she has lived in Western North Carolina since 1987 and completed her Masters of Liberal Arts & Sciences from UNC-Asheville in 2016. Follow me @mvwilliams

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