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“Share the Legacy” at the MU Homecoming Blood Drive
By Lindsay Grotjan, Corner Post Staff

MU students, faculty and staff, as well as Columbia and the surrounding communities are invited to help “Share the Legacy” and make this year’s blood drive a success. This year’s Homecoming Blood Drive is a two-day event, held from noon to 8 p.m. on Oct. 12 and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the University of Missouri’s Hearnes Center Fieldhouse. Deferral day is from noon to 6 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the University of Missouri Hearnes Center Concourse.

The Homecoming Blood Drive, hosted by MU and the American Red Cross, is one of the largest blood drives in the world. The donations benefit patients around the Columbia area and beyond. According to the American Red Cross, every two seconds, someone in the world needs blood. By making one donation a person can save three lives.

Jessie Logan, a freshman who has donated blood once before, is going to donate at the Homecoming Blood Drive this year “to help the people that are in need.”

People who wish to donate, but are not MU students are encouraged to sign up online at www.donateblood.com/Community.asp. Questions or comments about the Homecoming Blood Drive should be e-mailed to umchomecomingblooddr@missouri.edu.

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