One Pint, One Hour, 3 Lives - Sign Up To Be A Donor For The Roosevelt Island Blood Drive At The Farmers Market Thru June 19

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The Roosevelt Island Blood Drive is currently underway. RIRA's Matt Katz tell us more:

For the tenth consecutive year, the Roosevelt Island Residents Association is sponsoring a blood drive. Island activists will staff a table at the Saturday Farmers Market from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. through June 19--Roosevelt Island Day. On the nineteenth, the New York Blood Center will take donations at the Senior Center, 546 Main Street, from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Sign up early to reserve a convenient time of day. The first sign-up last Saturday garnered 36 pledges of blood; the best start in the ten-year history of the drive. The New York Blood Center will match their allocation of staff and machines to the number of potential donors we amass so there should be no log waits for service. We have averaged about 60 pledges with 40 actual pints of blood over the last few years, with 67 pints as our community best. With this terrific start, we are on target to beat that number so come out, sign up and bleed for a greater New York!

RIRA President Frank Farance adds:

RIRA Blood Drive on June 19, Roosevelt Island Day. You'll see us at the Saturday market asking you to volunteer. Certainly, donating blood saves and, if that is not enough attraction, there will be apple juice and Oreos afterwards. Up through age 30, I still had been squeamish about donating -- the needle and all that stuff. Then a mentor told me: it's really the right thing to do, think how you can help someone else's life. I got over it. Please consider donating blood. Thanks to Matt Katz for organizing this.

RIOC Director Howard Polivy was staffing the Blood Donation Table at last week's Farmers Market.


Why not drop by, say hello and sign up to be a blood donor? You never know whose life you may be saving