Blood Drive

The American Red Cross hosted a blood drive out of Lyndon State College, Monday February 8, 2010.  Only thirty-eight percent of Americans are eligible to donate blood, and out of that thirty-eight only eight percent donate.

Out of the people that donate, twenty percent of the blood comes from students from high school and college, which makes Lyndon State a prime location for the donors.   Many of the students have a deep passion for helping others.

Sebastion Lury, a Lyndon State student stated, "A friend of mine told me she was going to do it today and I thought about it and it's a good cause you know people need help there's a lot of disaster going on in this world especially with Haiti and Katrina a couple years ago and so if I could make it a little, life a little easier for someone else why not?"

The Vermont Red Cross averages about fifty thousand pints of blood each year.  That fifty thousand units can save up to 150 thousand lives.

A Red Cross Representative, David Carmichael, said, "There's very few opportunities you have to help save a life in our lives and you know not everybody's going to be watching someone to be hit by a car to run up and push him to safety.  We have an opportunity even though this might seem mundane to some, this is a true chance to help save a life."

News 7 reporter Nadine Grimley has more with the details.