Blood drive nets 54 pints in Flora
Comet staff report

Fifty-four pints of blood were received from 61 volunteers when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visited Flora on Dec. 27.

The Flora Old German Baptist Church with nine volunteers will receive $100 from the Flora Psi Iota Xi. The Delphi United Methodist Church and the Flora First Christian Church tied for second with five volunteers each.

First-time donors were Jack Hayes, Flora, and Matt Etter, Delphi.

Other volunteers were:

FLORA: Jim Draper, Gary Duff, Eldo Beam, Karla Jenkins, Mary Hayes, Nancy Miller, Galen Miller, Gail Ennis, Jr., Lonnie Spesard, Lana Mackovic, Judy Ayres, Teresa McGill, Shon McIlrath, Meaghn Collins, Steve Wolf, Marion Blocher, Raymond Winter, Suzanne Winter, Glenda Oilar, Desiray Simmons, Duane Overholser.

DELPHI: Larry Welborn, Nicholas Clark, Donna Mikesell, Jim Mikesell, Debra Fuller, Carolyn Wood, Carol Flora, Robert Strausser, Polly Rinehart, Dick Rinehart, Forrest Newman, Ralph Hughes, Jo White, Joanne Dolweck, Marilyn O'Farrell, Beverly Seese, Carolyn Pearson, Anna Etter, Nelson Sines, Kenneth Berkshire, Gary Cleaver.

BRINGHURST: Gale Kinzie, Harold Killingsworth, Phyllis Porter, Richard Porter, Richard Hufford, Richard Skiles, Chase Richardson.

CUTLER: Jim Allen, Charles Bordner, Lori Jacobs.

CAMDEN: Robert McCain, Lena Flory.

DEER CREEK: Dot Fulton.

KOKOMO: Melinda Luttrell, Paul Luttrell.

INDIANAPOLIS: Miranda Naugle. Helpers were:

PSI IOTA XI CHAIRPERSON - Carla Richardson

COORDINATOR AND LUNCHES - Jane Bishop

RECEPTIONISTS - Elizabeth Mylet, Helen Forgey, Phyllis Porter, Lucille Brown.

KITCHEN AND CANTEEN - Carla Richardson, Donita Kennedy, Kelsey Kennedy, Keltie Lake, Carson Spesard, Chase Richardson.

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

SET UP - FLORA UTILITIES: Duane Overholser, Kenneth Coddington, Darrell Hoffman.

TAKE DOWN - Flora Lions: David Allbaugh, Paul Redmon, Lew Kressley, Tom Kressley.

POSTERS - Ann Cronk, Debbie Smith, Jane Bishop.

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