Blood Donations Needed After Storms — and There’s an Opportunity Sunday at Tokeneke School

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After winter storms canceled a number of bood drives in Connecticut and elsewhere, there’s a greater need to give blood, the American Red Cross says, and you have the opportunity on Sunday at Tokeneke School. A blood drive at the school is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday. (Other blood drives are scheduled for next week, but they’re out of town.)

The Tokeneke Parent Teacher Organization posted this announcement on its website:
Tokeneke School is partnering with the American Red Cross to host its 3rd annual blood drive Sunday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Blood donations are in honor of our Tokeneke families and friends diagnosed with conditions that put them, and over a million others, in need of blood and platelets. We’ve always been a community that values the gift of giving.  Please consider donating blood or volunteering at the drive. Here’s an announcement from the Red Cross on March 22 (note that “All blood types are needed.”):

The American Red Cross is issuing a call for type O negative and AB blood donors to make an appointment to give after severe winter weather in some parts of the country caused about 250 Red Cross blood drives to cancel in March, resulting in more than 8,500 uncollected blood donations.