Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The event was held Sunday at the Fort Lee Recreation Center and hailed as a success.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Patch Staff
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
About 35 people donated blood over a four-hour period Sunday as Fort Lee Brownie Troop 1017 teamed up with the American Red Cross at the Fort Lee Recreation Center for a blood drive. Earlier in January the troop’s co-leaders, Paige Soltano and Rachel Schulman, invited Rosana Tabakci of the American Red Cross’s blood services division for the Penn-Jersey region to the troop’s meeting at Fort Lee School No. 3 to talk about the importance of donating blood. “They have a hard time to understand about blood,” Tabakci told Patch at the time. “But on the day of the drive, they understand because they see it, and it’s fun. And they feel good because they’re doing something they know is good.” She told the Brownies that by participating in the …
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The American Red Cross and Fort Lee Brownie Troop 1017's blood drive is later this month.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Erik Wander
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The leaders of a Fort Lee Brownie troop hosted a representative from the American Red Cross Friday to talk to the girls about the importance of donating blood in preparation for the troop’s upcoming blood drive at the Fort Lee Recreation Center on Jan. 29. Co-Leaders of Brownie Troop 1017 in Fort Lee, Paige Soltano and Rachel Schulman, invited Rosana Tabakci of the American Red Cross’s blood services division for the Penn-Jersey region to the troop’s meeting at Fort Lee School No. 3. “Giving food to a food pantry is helping people who don’t have enough food for themselves,” Soltano told the Brownies. “When you give blood, you’re donating to people who need blood. So think of it as a food pantry but specifically for blood if there’s a …
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Fort Lee's annual Emergency Services Blood Drive featured something new this year
- POLICE & FIRE
- Grace Lim
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Cathi Goldfischer of Fort Lee lives to donate. The blood and organ donor has been a member of the Fort Lee Ambulance Corps for 30 years, and she got her start with EMS at the age of 16. Goldfischer says she knows a number of people who have illnesses that will eventually require organ transplants, and she wants to tell those people that she would be happy to assist them if she is a match. “I think being a part of EMS is that you’re just so interested in helping people,” Goldfischer said. “You see tragedy around you, and you recognize that out of that tragedy comes life. So many people can be saved by organ donation and it’s something that I felt passionate about for a number of years.” Goldfischer was one of the veterans who returned…
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Fort Lee Emergency Services Blood Drive will also provide donors the opportunity to sign up to become organ donors this year
Fort Lee’s Emergency Services Blood Drive, sponsored by the local police and fire departments, the Fort Lee Ambulance Corps. and Fort Lee PBA Local #245, is Friday from 3 to 8:30 p.m. at the Jack Alter Fort Lee Community Center. “It’s something we do every year,” said blood and organ donor, Fort Lee policeman and president of the local PBA, Kevin Kosuda, adding that this year’s blood drive will feature something new. “About six months ago, myself and the state delegate were at a state PBA meeting, and we happened to meet a girl by the name of Jessica Melore,” Kosuda explained. “She sat there in front of about a thousand cops and told us her story. And you’re talking about hardened cops, and she brought most of these guys to tears about …
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