Blood for Oil

Jun 05, 2007 23:55


Courier-Post Update

Red Cross will give gasoline for blood

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- American Red Cross officials are offering the chance to
win free gasoline as an incentive to get more New Jersey and Pennsylvania
residents to donate blood.

This summer, each donor will automatically be entered in a drawing to win
$3,500 worth of gasoline. Entries for the first drawing, to be held July 23,
are already being accepted. An identical raffle will start July 23 and run
through Sept. 16.

Every day, the Red Cross also will award a $25 gas card to a randomly
selected donor.

"We thought that with the price of gasoline so high, and knowing that people
like to drive to the Jersey shore, this might be a good way to encourage
someone to donate," said Kristy Kane, spokeswoman for the American Red Cross
Penn-Jersey Region.

The Red Cross chapter runs about 25 blood drives each day throughout
southeastern Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey. During summers, it
struggles to get blood donations, Kane said.

To donate, residents must be healthy, be at least 17 years old and weigh at
least 110 pounds. They can donate blood every 56 days.
Published: June 05. 2007 11:39AM
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