Phil Gillette gives blood at an American Red Cross blood drive in La Grande on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Nicolle Potts, a phlebotomist with the American Red Cross, is on the left.
Phil Gillette gives blood at an American Red Cross blood drive in La Grande on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Nicolle Potts, a phlebotomist with the American Red Cross, is on the left.
Phil Gillette gives blood at an American Red Cross blood drive in La Grande on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Nicolle Potts, a phlebotomist with the American Red Cross, is on the left.
Phil Gillette gives blood at an American Red Cross blood drive in La Grande on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Nicolle Potts, a phlebotomist with the American Red Cross, is on the left.
LA GRANDE — The community of La Grande is on pace to have its best year for blood donations in at least two decades.
A total of 232 units of blood were collected earlier this month during a two-day American Red Cross blood drive in La Grande, boosting the total number of units donated during 2022 in three two-day blood drives to 678. The strong results mean La Grande, with a pair of two-day blood drives remaining in 2022, is on track to collect 1,130 units for the year, 165 units more than the 965 units collected in 2021 and 487 more than the total of 643 donated in 2020.
Dick Mason is a reporter with The Observer primarily covering the communities of North Powder, Imbler, Island City and Union, education, Union County veterans programs and local history. Dick joined The Observer in 1983, first working as a sports and outdoors reporter.
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