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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-08-26, Page 5(Rx Central Keating's Pharmacy Last Red Cross blood cline held Optimist Club assists and plans to help new agency that takes over BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff The Canadian Red Cross collected blood in Seaforth for the last time Thursday - collecting 168 units. surpassing its target by three. Twenty-three of this total were deferrals. people who couldn't donate their blood on this particular day for good reason, such as medical, but will on a better day, says Jim McNichol of the Seaforth Optimist Club. There was a little party of appreciation for the Red Cross, which has been collecting blood in town for from 15 to 20 years. after the final Seaforth clinics. Thursday afternoon and evening. Red Cross is being disbanded Oct. 1. as a result of what has hccomc known as the national "tainted -blood scandal". and it is being immediately replaced by Canadian Blood Services. It will he an administrative and name change more than anything else, according to Glenyce Gilliam. charge nurse at last week's clinics here. SAME STAFF "Different paperwork." she said but the same staff. "There is always a blood shortage," she said. "Hospitals' need for blood is constant." McNichol says the newly re-formed Seaforth Optimist Club assumed organizational responsibilities for the Seaforth clinics. under whatever name the national blood collection agency is called. The local people are all volunteers. and the clinics are also supported with cash and donations from local businesses. He said the Red Cross has averaged between 150 and 200 units annually in town. and although Seaforth was within range again and surpassed its target. donations seemed to drag slower than usual BLOOD DONOR - Bill Brown of Egmondville collected at last Thursday night's Red Cross charge nurse Glenyce Gilliam in the foreground Hengel assisting. CAMPBELL PHOTO McNichol said this was prbbahly because the afternoon session was a new wrinkle. making for less of a rush in the evening. "The lineups weren't as big." he says. More than 35 units of blood were collected in the hour - and -a -half session Thursday afternoon which McNichol terms "very busy". 100 TIMES One long-term local donor missed out on getting a mounted citation. But Rev. Nick Vandcrmey's Monsters don't drink blood anymore, they give you AIDS MOM Page 1 remember where J heard it was another one of these modem myths. Will 1' look shoulder in an interstate rest stop'' Would 1 think twice about going to a crowded dance club'' Sure. Why take the chance that there isn't some truth to the stories'' I've even caught • myself looking in the hack seat on dark nights•when my car has been left unlocked. I suspect that comes from the fear of being a child. hearing that scary story for the first lime. It shows the power of rumors: just how far a rumor or story can spread, grow and become part of our over my Complete Automotive Repair "Class A Mechanic" TIRE SALES. SERVICE & REPAIR ARCHIE'S Seswice eeaitte tr1,4l 527-0881 Win 24 Gtxlench St. E. Seaforth culture. In the past. stories were told of monsters whose looks could turn men to stone or of creatures who lived on human blood. Today. we live in a society where there really could he a monster carrying an AIDS infected needle around, preying on unsuspecting victims. donated some of the 168 units of blood blood donor's clinic in Seaforth.. That's on the right, and volunteer Karen Vanden honour will he waiting for him when he gets hack from holidays. The minister of First Presbyterian Church in Seaforth donated blood for the 100th time at an area clinic in May. McNichol adds that Jack Ungarian from town is also a long-time. many -repeat blood donor. 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