Donors asked to roll up their sleeves
There is always a need for donated blood in northern Iowa, according to those who run blood banks. A fatal bus crash in Calhoun County involving the Iowa Lakes Community College baseball team last week combined with a couple of incidents in Iowa and South Dakota have made the need more acute. LifeServe Blood Center sent “many units” of donated blood to treat the 32 people who were injured in the bus crash, according to Kathryn Kuckelman, the public relations and marketing coordinator for the blood bank. “We now need to replenish the blood supply at local hospitals,” she ...


