GREEN  The Red Cross held their annual Green Community Blood Drive April 25- 26 and May 1.

Green Community Center, Green High School and FedEx Custom Critical were hosts of the blood drives. Together their efforts were able to collect 361 pints of blood.
Green High School collected 223 pints. The Chapel in Green gathered 53 pints, the Green Community Center collected 40 pints and FedEx Custom Critical gathered 45pints.

Each pint of blood has the potential to touch up to three lives, therefore these blood drives could help more than 1,000 patients in northern Ohio.

The region serves 57 local hospitals in 19 Ohio counties.  Each day, the region needs to collect 900 pints of blood to meet the needs of local patients.

The drives were sponsored by: 1590 WAKR, The Suburbanite, The Chapel in Green, Green High School, City of Green, and FedEx Custom Critical.

“Without dedicated sponsors like these, the Northern Ohio Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross could not continue its life-saving mission,” said Christy Chapman.

The Red Cross needs regular donors like Frank Steel, a Green resident, who said he donates every 56 days. He said he just does it as a public service, because he knows there is a need.

Chapman said Green High students also had a lot to do with the success of the drive by recruiting donors and volunteering at the drives to work registration and canteen.