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Garrett
Allen, Community Blood Services' whole blood manager,
presents a certificate for a 1-hour body massage with
nationally certified massage therapist Micki Kuttler
of Haworth to Adeline Johnson of Paramus. Adeline, who
has donated blood 47 times since 1988, won the massage
in a raffle held during the last week of February to
beat the winter blues..
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Amidst
St. Patrick's Day decorations in the donor canteen at
the blood center, donor Paula Riportella of New Milford
enjoys some refreshments after donating blood with the
help of canteen volunteer Ed Babilot. |
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Volunteer
Ed Babilot sees to the needs of donor Kathleen Brosnan
of River Edge after she donated during the center's St.
Patrick's Day party. |
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Eugene
Rogers of Paterson also dropped by to take part in the
center's St. Patrick's Day blood drive. |
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Showing
off the posters they designed for Community Blood
Services' poster contest while attending CCD classes
at Annunciation Church in Paramus are (from left)
Jake Watson, 9, first-place winner; Alicia Devaney,
9, second-place winner; and Eric Pertuz, 11, third-place
winner. "Donating blood is very helpful to people
who need it," says Jake, while Alicia notes, " Donating
blood is good and helpful to other people, especially
people in accidents." Eric thinks donating blood
is good for everyone because it saves lives. "A
person with a rare blood type may be the only chance
to save someon's life," he says. |
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2/23/02
- Michael
Rumpolo (second from left), who plays for the Ridgwood
Dragons hockey team, won the raffle for a NJ Devils
hockey stick donated by the Devils and signed by
Scottt Gomez. He's shown here during the recent
blood drive with (from left) Kerry Heineman, an
R.N supervisor at Community Blood Services; his
father, Joseph Rumpolo; and Jeffrey Ball, co-president
of the Ridgewood Roller Hockey Association. |
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Blood
donor Scott Solvang of Hillsdale planned to take
his wife to dinner to celebrate their anniversary
after winning first prize in the raffle Community
Blood Services raffle, a dinner donated by Aldo's
Italian Restaurant in Wyckoff. Congratulations,
Scott! |
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When
CBS telerecruiter Howard Schlesinger called to say
there was an urgent need for blood, it only took
Sister Teresa Marie Mahon S.C. of Harrington Park
a half hour to arrive at the blood center in Paramus
to make a blood donation . Thank you, Sister Teresa!
Lives are saved because of unselfish donors like
you! |
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Annette
Skelton of Woodcliff Lake (left) became a first-time whole
blood donor at Community Blood Services, while her friend
Brigitte Greenstone of Ramsey donated platelets for the
first time after both recognized the importance of becoming
blood donors as a result of the September 11th terrorist
attacks. They have vowed to become regular donors. |
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Church in Paramus recently held a blood drive in support of
Community Blood Services' United For Life program, which will
make blood available as needed at no cost to the spouses or
dependent family members of police and firefighters within our
communities who perish in the line of duty and to those of corporate
employees who perished in the World Trade Center disaster. |
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Annunciation Church members sign up to donate blood at
the church's recent blood drive to support Community Blood
Services' United For Life program. |
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Dorene
Veliky of Paramus donates blood at the recent Annunciation
Church blood drive. |
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CBS
recently held a Mardi Gras Singles' Night for blood
donors at the center with food, music, games and prizes.
Judy Miller of the Jewish Community Center (right) deals
cards for a game of blackjack to (from left) Susan Levinson
of the Jewish Community Center; Martin Felder of Upper
Montclair; Richard Mayer of Nutley; and Andrew Goldberg
of Chatham. |
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Playing
cards during CBS' Mardi Gras Singles' Night are (from
left) Jennifer Romanoff of Hillsdale; Allan Gosdin of
Lyndhurst; Joanne Folz of Wood-Ridge, and Howard Greenblatt
of Clifton. Dealer (right) is Carl Pettengil of Rutherford.
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than 50 employees of New Jersey Media Group's offices
at the Record in Hackensack and at Garret Mountain Plaza in
West Paterson donated during recent blood drives held by Commmunity
Blood Services. |
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Rocco
Gallo of North Jersey Media Group's Human Resources Department,
who coordinated the blood drive at The Record, greets
Lynne Cuomo of The Record's manufacturing department at
the registration desk for donors. |
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Clemens
Tomaszewski from The Record's Circulation Department is
about to donate blood with assistance from Darrell Brooks
from the blood center. |
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Alex
S. Koukeas of North Jersey Media Group's Human Resources
Department gets some refreshments from Judi Kurjian of
the blood center after donating blood at The Record in
Hackensack's recent blood drive. |
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