Three new donors help Fairbury Bloodmobile reach 87 units

Fairbury Bloodmobile
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Three new donors were among those who provided 87 units at the August bloodmobile, held Aug. 24 at the First United Methodist Church.

First time donors were Rachel Elbert of Forrest, Kelsey McNamara of Colfax and Corinne Baker of Fairbury.

Others reaching milestones were Nathan Kelson, Fairbury, two gallons; Robert Bradbury, Piper City, three gallons; Russ Tjarks, Sibley, four gallons; Donna Delaney, Fairbury, five gallons; Brian Short, Forrest, seven gallons; MaryAnn Stork, Fairbury, and Jim Kearney, Sibley, both eight gallons; Shelly Schahrer, Fairbury, 10 gallons; Nancy Meister, Fairbury, 11 gallons; Barry Kaisner, Forrest, 20 gallons; and Jim Yoder, Forrest, 29 gallons.

Donors came from Fairbury, Forrest, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Cropsey, Sibley, Piper City, Strawn, Lexington, Colfax, and Pontiac.

Also donating were Colbey Steffen, Karl Edelman, Ted Bachtold, Jane Harbeck, John Vitzthum, Catherine Wahls, Carol Tjarks, Gerry Groskreutz, Matthew Brauman, John Krueger, Debbie Freed, Barbara Schlatter, Ed Palen, Rhonda Rudin, Harvey Bahler, Heidi Bachman, Elizabeth Dray, Greg Hish, Don Walter, Martha Fehr, Val Broquard and Sue Walter.

Others donating were Mary Zimmerman, Megan Mathes, Patricia Steidinger, Lori Leman, Nancy Kahle, Kathleen Lawless, Ray Popejoy, Mark Hall, Steve Weeks, Becky Wahls, Susan Strong, Steven Maurer, Jacob Leman, Richard Stoller, Ty Cottrell, Charles Larsen, Dale Banwart, Drew Banwart, Cary Dehm, Kimberly Kovach, Joe Palen, Vicki Mueller, Jill Rieger, Martin Steidinger, Elizabeth Getty, Philip Leman, James Stein, Steve Bashford, David Hammer, Ernie Garcia, Andres Espinosa Gomez, Paul Harms, Stan Blunier, Quinn Zehr, Marcus Duncan, Nancy Stadler, Beth Weeks and Julius Embry.

Gas card winners were Donna Delaney and Karl Edelman.

VFW Auxiliary Post #9789 donated a Dave’s Supermarket gift card to provide food for the donors. Cookies were furnished by Kathy Honegger and by ladies from the VFW post — Sharon McCoy, Mary Carter, Michelle Little, Cindy Endres, Laurie Cliffe, and Deb Freese.

Volunteers working at the bloodmobile were Shelly Schahrer, Kathy Fehr, Randy Lane, Harold Meister, Teresa Palen, Beverly Forneris, Teresa Thomas, Jeanie Searby, Liz Freeland, Delmar Platz, Darna Lee Dearth, Deb Moran, Linda Zick, Becky Webster, Jone Meister, Mary Carter, Angie Wenger, Karyl Kafer, Mary Zimmerman, Sharon McCoy, Glenda Platz and Barb Taylor.

Many thanks to the donors and to the volunteers who gave of their time to help others.

The next opportunity to donate blood will be Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Fairbury United Methodist Church.

To schedule an appointment, contact Barb Taylor at 692-2496.

Fairbury Bloodmobile

This article originally appeared on Pontiac Daily Leader: Fairbury bloodmobile takes in 87 units at August drive