News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 2008

COTTEY TO HOST BLOOD DRIVE OCTOBER 14

Community Blood Center, the provider of blood services to local hospitals, will conduct a blood drive at Cottey College on Tuesday, October 14, in the lobby of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts from 3-7 p.m.

"When individuals normally think of essential community services, they think about the fire and police departments," said Dr. Jay Menitove, executive director and medical director with Community Blood Center. "However, because Community Blood Center is here to meet the needs of local patients, we would hope that individuals in our community would consider us to be just as essential."

Individuals in Nevada can help meet the local needs by donating blood at the Community Blood Center blood drive on Tuesday, October 14, from 3-7 p.m. in the Center for the Arts. To make an appointment online, go to www.savealifenow.org. Just one donation can help as many as two local hospital patients. For medical eligibility questions, call 1-800-245-7035.

The Center for the Arts is on the northeast corner of Austin and Tower streets in Nevada, Missouri.