Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 13, 1994                   TAG: 9401130369
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-2   EDITION: METRO 
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A MESSAGE TO BLOOD DONORS: THANK YOU ALL

The staff of the American Red Cross Appalachian Regional Blood Services would like to sincerely thank all of the donors who have responded to the community blood needs over the past several days. Your generosity has and will sustain the lives of many people in the area hospitals. We are very happy to see that the spirit of Southwest Virginia continues to be with us.

Even with your generous response, though, the need is still great and will take several weeks of increased donations to replenish the exhausted blood supply.

We greatly appreciate your patience in tolerating the delays because of the increasing number of donors responding. All available personnel are being utilized to staff the daily blood drives throughout our 43-county region.\ Sincerely,\ Dr. Yenshen Hsueh and staff\ American Red Cross\ Appalachian Regional Blood Services