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Blood drive brings in 37 volunteers

New Rockford hosted a blood drive with Vitalant on Sept. 16 at St. Johns Catholic Church. A total of 41 units of blood products were collected for patients in need.

That day, 37 individuals volunteered to donate blood. Five of those donors came forward to donate Power Red Cells (2RBC) which collects two units of red blood cells while returning platelets, plasma and a saline solution back to th...