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Two of the Red Cross Nurses, Linda
from Alex. and Karen from Melrose, gave our Perham High School lots of
praise.
"We can give the Perham
kids a first place award for how well they put this together. We
were amazed. The balloons and cookies and all the kids willing to
help. The kids are very friendly when they come into give blood. for
allot of them.......their parents start them out."
The community of Perham thanks you nurses
for such the positive attitude you had in helping our kids make this
possible.
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Matt Sharp from Perham checks in with
Suzie Rethmeier. Suzie said when interviewed, "last
year we had about 140 kids who tried to give blood, but of those we lost
about 30 who could not give for various reasons"......but actually we
attract more adults with our school - community blood drive then we do
kids.. The first year, student body President Foltz organized
this at the VFW in Perham at the beginning of school year, in the
fall. When we lost one of our students in an accident that
year, it motivated the kids to do it at the school. The Red Cross
was very willing to cooperate. That was the same year that Amy
Paulson had her accident and that got allot of kids involved." |
Senior Paula Strome volunteered with allot
of SADD kids. She said about the event, "What the kids gain
from this is that once they give for the first time, they will probably
give for the rest of their lives. some kids have already given
three times since we started this."
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