Bloodmobile collects 50 units in Flora

2008-12-10 / Local News

Comet staff report

Fifty units of blood were received from fifty-six volunteers when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visited Flora on Dec. 4.

The Flora Old Order German Baptist Brethren Church with nine volunteers will receive $100 from the Flora Psi Iota Xi for having the most donors. The Delphi Methodist Church was runner-up with five volunteers.

Those receiving gallon pins were: Paul Fife and Gale Kinzie, Bringhurst, 15 gallons; Galen Miller, Flora, 13 gallons; Kevin Robeson, Logansport, six gallons, and Polly Rinehart, Delphi, four gallons.

First-time donors were: David and Cheryl Wise, Flora, and Aaron Goodman, Camden.

Others volunteering were:

FLORA: Marion Blocher, Rosanna Riffey, Lonnie Spesard, Lori Jacobs, Joyce Sparks, Nancy Miller, Dale Orem, Kevin Shafer, Duane Overholser, Renda Lawson, Sarah Hanaway.

DELPHI: Donna Mikesell, James Mikesell, Carol Flora, Joanne Dolweck, Forrest Newman, Brenda Morris, Dick Rinehart, David Weckerly, Tina Isaacs, Jo White, Nelson Sines, Larry Welborn, Carolyn Pearson, Gary Cleaver, Jerry Holsapple, Carolyn Wood, Tobe Leazenby, James Cooksey.

BRINGHURST: Harold Killingsworth, Richard Porter, Phyllis Porter, Nancy Mayer, Donald Peters.

CAMDEN: Rusty Ashby, Jerry Hendress, Kenneth Berkshire, Lena Flory.

CUTLER: James Allen, Charles Bordner.

DEER CREEK: Dan Roberson, Juanita Roberson, Teresa Cooksey.

KOKOMO: Melinda Luttrell, Paul Luttrell.

LUCERNE: Wayne Peters. Helpers were:

LUNCHES: Jane Bishop

PSI IOTA XI CHAIRPERSON: Carla Richardson

RECEPTIONISTS: Elizabeth Mylet, Helen Forgey, Phyllis Porter, Nancy Mayer.

KITCHEN AND CANTEEN: Carla Richardson, Jennifer Spesard, Amber Wright, Aaron Goodman, Crystal Keck, Donita Kennedy.

SET UP: FLORA UTILITIES: Duane Overholser, Ken Coddington, Ron Fritz, Kevin Shafer, Greg Barnes, Ted Donoho, and Darrell Hoffman, and Jim Fisher.

TAKE DOWN-FLORA LIONS: Doug Winger, Jeff McIlrath.

POSTERS: Ann Cronk, Debbie Smith, Jane Bishop

PUBLICITY: Carroll County Comet, Flora CableVision, area newspapers and radio stations, county churches, banks and businesses.

SPECIAL THANKS: Those who donated cookies and the Flora United Methodist Church for the use of the site.

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