Fort Lee Emergency Services Host Blood Drive Friday

Emergency Services Blood Drive at the Recreation Center Friday

The Fort Lee Ambulance Corps. is coordinating an Emergency Services Blood Drive on Friday, Jan. 25, from 2pm to 8pm at the Fort Lee Recreation Center. Community Blood Services of Paramus, a not-for-profit organization that supplies blood and blood products to more than 30 hospitals in the New Jersey and New York region, will be providing staff and equipment to collect blood from donors. According to a representative from Community Blood Services, the unit of blood you give may be used to help save up to three lives. Your blood can be separated into red cells, platelets, and plasma. Red blood cells are used to treat patients who are anemic. Plasma can be used to treat patients in shock due to fluid loss as a result of burns. Platelets are …

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Local Brownies Team with American Red Cross for Blood Drive

The event was held Sunday at the Fort Lee Recreation Center and hailed as a success.

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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Local Brownie Troop Plans For Drive, Learns About Donating Blood

The American Red Cross and Fort Lee Brownie Troop 1017's blood drive is later this month.

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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5 Things You Need to Know

Five Things This Week: Shakespeare, Blood Drive, '007,' More

A quick look at five just some of what’s going on in Fort Lee this week.

Below is a quick look at five things you should know about this week and/or might not want to miss: Number one: Monday’s regular public meeting of the Fort Lee Board of Adjustment has been canceled due to lack of agenda, according to the borough. The next regular public meeting is Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Borough Hall’s council chambers. Number two Shakespeare in the Park continues Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Monument Park with the second of two performances of Tymon of Athens. This will be the final performance of the season by the Hudson Shakespeare Company, which has also performed Henry V and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Number three: Fort Lee’s Emergency Services Blood Drive, sponsored by the local police and fire departments, the …

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