Flora Bloodmobile nets 48 pints of blood

2009-04-01 / Local News

Comet staff report

Forty-eight pints of blood were received from fifty volunteers when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visited Flora on March 26.

The Flora Old Order German Baptist Church with eight volunteers will receive $100 from the Flora Psi Iota Xi. The Flora United Methodist Church was runner-up with six volunteers.

Those volunteering blood were:

FLORA: Teresa McGill, Raymond Winter, Dale Orem, Roxanna Metzger, Joyce Sparks, Galen Miller, Patricia Delk, Adam Bridge, David Wise, Robert Baker, Stefanie Hawkins, Carina Scott, Marion Blocher, Glenda Oilar, Kevin Shafer, Sharon Everett,Rosanna Riffey,Sarah Hanaway.

DELPHI: David Weckerly, Jayme Folmer,Audrey Smith, Ralph Hughes, Carl Seese, Krista Eiler, Susan Eiler, Mary Clifford, Polly Rinehart, Dick Rinehart, Nelson Sines, Carol Flora, Carolyn Wood, Gary Cleaver.

BRINGHURST: Richard Porter, Don Peters, Gale Kinzie, Lori Jacobs, Paul Fife, Nancy Mayer, Marlene Smith, Rob Kauffman, Harold Killingsworth, Phyllis Porter.

CAMDEN: Ruth Ann Coppock, Chuck Coppock.

CUTLER: James Allen, Charles Bordner, Mark Cook, Maureen Parker, Doug Whiteman.

DEER CREEK: Teresa Cooksey. Helpers were:

LUNCHES - Jane Bishop

PSI IOTA XI CHAIRPERSON - Carla Richardson

RECEPTIONISTS - Elizabeth Mylet, Helen Forgey, Nancy Mayer, Phyllis Porter

KITCHEN AND CANTEEN - Carla Richardson, Tina Allbaugh, Donita Kennedy, Kaitlin Kennedy, Brock Richardson

SET UP-FLORA UTILITIES - Duane Overholser, Darrell Hoffman, Kenneth Coddington, Kevin Shafer, Ron Fritz

TAKE DOWN - Flora Lions: Mike Hoffman, Jim Hedrick, Eric Johnson

POSTERS - Debbie Smith, Peter Bishop, Jane Bishop

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

SPECIAL THANKS - those who donated cookies, the Flora United Methodist Church for the use of the site, and Karen Garrison for telling her story of the benefits of blood to her life.

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