BWMS Blood Drive slated for February 15

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School Stu­dent Coun­cil mem­bers are ask­ing all student’s par­ents and other mem­bers of the Big Wal­nut com­mu­nity to join them and help save lives by giv­ing blood. The mid­dle school is host­ing an Amer­i­can Red Cross Blood Drive on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 15, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the BWMS Com­mons as part of the ARC’s Old Enough to Save Lives program.

The Old Enough to Save Lives pro­gram is a com­mu­nity ser­vice project devel­oped by the Amer­i­can Red Cross to intro­duce chil­dren to the impor­tance of donat­ing blood. The pro­gram encour­ages stu­dents to vol­un­teer at the blood drive and invite par­ents, guardians and other adults to give blood on their behalf.

The BWMS goal is to have 50 units given on that day; and any­one who donates will also receive a coupon for a free hot choco­late from Tim Horton’s and be entered to win free gro­ceries for a year from Kroger’s.

Each stu­dent who invites an adult to donate will be rec­og­nized as a Hero and will receive an Amer­i­can Red Cross thank you gift. If a par­ent has more than one child in the school, each stu­dent will be recognized.

Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School Stu­dent Coun­cil is com­posed of Sev­enth Grade mem­bers Madi Bra­ga­lone, Kaleb Bryant, Olivia Chiles, Brandt Ebright, Andrea Evans, Cody Falk, Shelby Farabee, Rebecca Fitch, Nate Grunewald, Emma Kri­ete­meyer, Kaitlin Meade, Bai­ley Mun­day, Mered­ith Oliva, Mary Palue, Tay­lor Ren­ner, Kata­rina Robitaille, and Nicole Thomas; and Eighth Grade mem­bers Bra­dyn Ander­son, Aubrey Bart­man, Alex Brehm, Adam Bur­dge, Ali Carter, Mariah Chat­tos, Mitchell Chol­ley, Dominic Chum­ley, TJ Coates, Eric Coth­ern, Jared Deel, Avery DeVol, LeighAnne Ford, Julie Fore­man, Car­o­line Gose, Kier­sten Grum­bling, Marisa Hage­man, Jacob Howard, Car­rie Kletro­vetz, Kelly Krea­ger, Abbie Myers, Nick Schulz, Nicole Sena, Sandy Smith, Jett Walls, Macy Watkins and Alyssa Zumpone.

To reg­is­ter to give blood dur­ing Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School’s Old Enough to Save Lives Blood Drive visit redcrossblood.org, spon­sor code: BWMS; or con­tact Jen­nifer Clark at 614–312-7628 or < Jennifer.Clark2@redcross.org >.

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