- Date
- 2000-08
- Kind
- Medical
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcarecommunityheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Rita Gillespie Memorial Blood Drive brought together 90 donors in 2000. The October Beacon credited island volunteers, the Red Cross, transportation services, churches, businesses, and Beaver Island Community School support staff with helping make the drive efficient and successful.
Evidence limits
The report gives the donor count and acknowledgments but not the drive’s exact date, collection volume, or medical-outcome record.
Sources
- Thanks 90 donors, island volunteers, the Red Cross team, Lisa and Robert Gillespie, the community, and the school for a record-efficient blood drive, and announces the next drive for August 9, 2001. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2000-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the published report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2000-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Rita Gillespie Memorial Blood Drive receives 90 Beaver Island donors in 2000”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rita-gillespie-memorial-blood-drive-2000/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2000, “To All Donors in Blood Drive 2000.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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