What's Your Favorite Kind of Music?
Donors Young and Young at Heart
Bringing Smiles to Recipients

What's your favorite kind of music?  Country?  Classical?  Jazz, blues, hip-hop? How about opera?  Whatever it is, you know music can put a smile on your face and start your day off right. One thing we also know is that when you donate blood to help another individual in need, you pass along a happy tune to someone else.

Please note the Upcoming Promotions  & Events (at right) coming up in our Region this month.  Click on to the logos for more information on each program.

At least two area donors were making beautiful music to those they encountered this week.  One was our resident world-record holder Maurice Wood.  After missing a rare regularly scheduled donation in February, the 40-gallon, 81-year-old donor was back donating in late April in South St. Louis County.  Said Mr. Wood, "I'll keep donating until someone tells me I can't."

Also putting a smile on people's faces with his own tune, was Anthony Royston, one of our younger donors, a Red Cross volunteer the last three months when he was not attending high school, and a true survivor. A donor and a recipient as well, Royston shared his story of survival and his plans for the future at the Regional offices in St. Louis.  We think you'll enjoy it and find it, too, an inspirartion.  Click here to see it.

The month of May continues to bring some of the unusual weather our Region has experienced and the need for blood remains constant.  College students will soon be heading home or to summer jobs and high schools, which host many of our fall and winter drives will be closing for the summer break. 

Find a Red Cross donation center near your home or work and put a song in the hearts of hospital patients in need. Remember every two seconds someone in this country needs blood.  And your donation can potentially help save the lives of three people.