ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s annual Fall Blood Drive will be held Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, September 15, 16, and 18, at two different locations on campus. On Monday, the Mobile Unit will be parked outside of the Industrial Services Building from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. On Tuesday and Thursday, Vitalant will have a Mobile Unit collecting donations behind the C.L. Neill Student Center on Dan Jones Memorial Drive near the Student Union from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, and until 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. The public, as well as the JC community are invited to participate by making an appointment on the Vitalant website,
“Every year Jones College’s blood drive helps provide a critical resource to sick and injured people throughout the state. As the need for critical blood supplies increases, JC students, faculty and staff step up every year and we do our best to meet the needs of our state and our community. I couldn’t be prouder of what Jones does through this one community service opportunity,” said JC Blood Drive Coordinator and Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Benji Sessums, Ph.D. NR-P.
The overall goal for the three-days is 105 units of blood stated Sessums. To encourage donations, T-shirts will be given to all donors and donors will have a chance to win $10,000, during random drawings according to Vitalant.