Hedley High School received $2,000 last Thursday from Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo following the school’s participating in the Kids, Inc. Donor Days blood drive.
With 31 units donated and a higher percentage of school population participating, Hedley beat out Texline and Follett in the competition’s small high school category. Students, staff, and members of the community all rallied together to donate the gift of life.
School officials say the money will toward new playground equipment.
Coffee representatives Suzanne Talley and Amanda Allen spent some time Thursday in Hedley thanking students for their endeavors in this life saving feat.
“I am thankful for generous donors.” Hedley teacher Kari Lindsey said. “I received blood in an emergency situation in 2016. Had it not been for generous donors, like these high school students, staff, and community members donating at local drives, I could have been in serious trouble. Coffee Memorial makes donating blood a quick and easy process.”
Students may donate blood, beginning at age 16 with parent permission. Volunteer donors are the key source of lifesaving blood for patients in need. Distinguished seniors graduating from Hedley High School, who have had two or more successful donations, are signified at graduation by wearing a red cord.
Hedley secretary Morgan Bebout works diligently to schedule blood drives at Hedley School, providing opportunities for students and others to donate. Teenagers often continue to donate blood and save lives as a result of what they began in high school.
Coffee Memorial stated that a collective total of 423 units were collected across the Panhandle during the Kids, Inc., Donor Days competition.
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