Community Corner
Blood Drive in Northbrook This Weekend
Community service event to be sponsored by The Rotary Club of Northbrook, the Northbrook Women's Club and Sunset Foods .
Hoping to increase the local blood supply, residents are organizing a blood drive in Northbrook this weekend.
The Rotary Club of Northbrook, the Northbrook Women’s Club and Sunset Foods are sponsoring the drive from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27.
It will be held at Sunset Foods, 1127 Church Street, Northbrook.
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“It’s an annual event that we’ve done,” said Jay Glaubinger, chairman of community services for the Rotary. “We feel it’s a valuable service for the community.”
LifeSource, Chicagoland’s blood center, will conduct the blood drive. Each year LifeSource relies on the generosity of more than 500,000 life-saving donors to treat and save lives of local area patients.
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If you’d like to donate, be sure to bring an ID – either a driver’s license, a military ID or an employee badge with a picture, with you Saturday.
To schedule an appointment, please vwww.lifesource.org using sponsor code 490B, or contact Glaubinger at (847) 562-1400.