Exeter Town Council recognizes Blood Center on its 30th anniversary
The Exeter Town council, at a meeting earlier this week, issued a proclamation congratulating the Rhode Island Blood Center on its 30th anniversary, and declaring May 4 as “Rhode Island Blood Center Recognition Day” in Exeter.
Among the items noted by the council were:
• Since its founding on May 1, 1979, the total number of donations at all Blood Center locations was 2,075,312, more than double the state’s population.
• At blood drives in Exeter, donations were 2,518 since the Blood Center’s founding.
• Noted the expansion of the Blood Center from its first center at University Heights in Providence to five centers now – Providence, Warwick, Woonsocket, Narragansett and Middletown; and expansion to five mobile donor coaches.
Pictured, left to right: Town Councilman William P. Mohahan, Town Councilwoman Arlene Hicks, Town Councilman Kenneth L. Fernstrom, Rhode Island Blood Center Community Education Manager Glenn Halvarson, and Town Council President Calvin A. Ellis.
Town Council President Calvin A. Ellis not only congratulated the Rhode Island Blood Center for its accomplishments, but reminded town residents to continue to donate blood.
The Rhode Island Blood Center is the state’s only blood collection agency, responsible for collecting up to 280 pints of blood every day to meet the needs of patients in our community. The Blood Center collects, tests and distributes blood products to all hospitals in Rhode Island and several others in Southern New England.