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NEWS BRIEFS: Blood donations needed across the Lowcountry

NEWS BRIEFS: Blood donations needed across the Lowcountry

Staff reports  |  More than 60 blood donation sites will be open over the next two weeks to help the American Red Cross meet what it calls a “severe blood shortage.” 

“Right now, the Red Cross needs to collect more than 1,000 additional blood donations (nationally) each day to meet current demand as hospitals respond to an unusually high number of traumas and emergency room visits, organ transplants and elective surgeries,” the agency said in a news release.

by · 07/12/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs
NEW for 7/12: On safe swimming, obscene pay hikes, blood needed

NEW for 7/12: On safe swimming, obscene pay hikes, blood needed

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Ways to ensure a summer full of safe, fun swimming
COMMENTARY, Brack: Big pay hikes in Columbia leave a stench
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
NEWS BRIEFS: Blood donations needed across the Lowcountry
FEEDBACK:  Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO:  Rear view
CALENDAR:  Big ballet to be in Charleston July 17

by · 07/12/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue
Red Cross volunteer Von Reagan of Charleston is comforting a four-legged residents at a pet-friendly shelter in North Charleston.   Photo by Bob Wallace/American Red Cross.

BRACK: Thanks to everyone for helping during Matthew

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Every one will have a different way of remembering Hurricane Matthew, which got everybody’s attention after it killed hundreds in Haiti on its way north to make a tempestuous landfall in South Carolina.

From now until eternity, I’m sure that every time I encounter a chocolate-covered almond, I’ll remember eating them while waiting out the storm in Georgia at my parent’s home with my daughters in the Atlanta area. My dad had a Costco-sized container full of them that we all ate until they were gone, And then another container miraculously appeared.

One daughter says she’ll likely remember visiting her grandparents whenever asked about Hurricane Matthew. Another daughter predicts she’ll recall worrying about the fate of our home in Charleston as the storm blew through.

by · 10/09/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views