PIERRE, (KCCR) — The Hoses held off a hard charge by the Guns Friday as 438 units of blood was collected over three days of the 19th Annual Tyler Wilcox Memorial Guns n Hoses Blood Drive. Abbie Arneson with LifeServe Blood Services says the Hoses carried a narrow advantage across the finish line…
The number of true first-time donors was way up this year and Arneson says the number of tragic incidents this year, especially in Stanley County may have motivated more first time givers of life…
LifeServe Blood Center Regional Director for South Dakota Rachel Fernandez is taking in this year’s drive for the first time and is impressed with it’s size, scale and mostly participation…
While the 438 mark was short of the 515 symbolic goal for the blood drive it, did beat the goal Arneson promised to hospitals in the LiveServe network of 434 which was the total collected last year.
