{"id":2792,"date":"2021-01-12T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:54:23","slug":"community-center-blood-drive-pop-up-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/community-center-blood-drive-pop-up-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Center Blood Drive Pop-Up a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number says it all; \u201c354 potential lives saved.\u201d That\u2019s the impact donors had at the latest blood collection \u201cpop-up\u201d at the South Whidbey Community Center.<\/p>\n

129 people, including 16 first-timers, donated blood during the three-day event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always think of the people who are fighting for their lives, and you all had a part in helping them! THANK YOU!!!!\u201d wrote Efrian Frias, Whidbey Island Donor Resources Representative at Bloodworks Northwest<\/a> in a recent email.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Bloodworks Northwest, which supplies 95% of the region\u2019s blood, has switched to pop-up events in large open places like the Community Center\u2019s gymnasium because of COVID-19. Additionally, donors couldn\u2019t just walk in, they had to make appointments.<\/p>\n

The pandemic has forced Bloodworks Northwest to make many changes in how they collect blood, including not using their mobile unit, which had been responsible for 60% of the blood collections.<\/p>\n

The January pop-up won\u2019t be the last at the Community Center. Frias says they hope to hold a pop-up on South Whidbey, \u201cevery eight weeks through June.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

All images courtesy Emily McLoughlin.<\/em><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The number says it all; \u201c354 potential lives saved.\u201d That\u2019s the impact donors had at the latest blood collection \u201cpop-up\u201d at the South Whidbey Community Center. 129 people, including 16 first-timers, donated blood during the three-day event. \u201cI always think of the people who are fighting for their lives, and you all had a part in helping them! THANK YOU!!!!\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwhidbeycommunitycenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}