| On
April 12th Riverside Square, the upscale shopping center
located in Hackensack, NJ and Community Blood Services
of Paramus, NJ will hold a "United For Life" blood drive
at Riverside Square, where retail merchants and shoppers
can donate blood and help fight the area's ongoing blood
shortage. |
| This
blood drive will also directly benefit a Paramus child
who requires regular blood transfusions. |
| Kimberly
Edson of Paramus, a 7-year-old with a rare blood disorder
who requires blood transfusions every three weeks, will
directly benefit from the drive. Kimberly, who will be
present at the Riverside Square drive, has helped increase
public awareness of the pressing need for an adequate
blood supply. |
| "We
encourage all shoppers and merchants of Riverside Square
to make an appointment to donate blood on April 12," said
Brenda Haas, marketing director of Riverside Square. "With
the severe and constant shortage in our area's blood supplies,
it is important that everyone who is able take an hour
out of their day to participate." |
| The
drive will take place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Community
Room, lower level at Riverside Square, and fulfills a
commitment Riverside Square made to Community Blood Services
after the September attack on the World Trade Center. |
| Door
prizes that will be offered to blood donors by Riverside
Square include: two Continental Airlines tickets to be
used anywhere in the United States, a gift certificate
from Pottery Barn, and two tickets to the Broadway play
Thoroughly Modern Millie. |
| Community
Blood Services provides blood and blood products to 32
hospitals in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Passaic
counties in New Jersey, as well as to hospitals in New
York City, and Orange and Rockland counties in New York. |
| In
order to meet the current needs of the hospitals it serves,
Community Blood Services should have a minimum of a one-week
supply of blood at all times. Lately, it has only had
a one- to two-day supply. Whole blood donors must be 18-
to 75-years-old (17 with parent's permission), and weigh
at least 110 pounds. |
| A
not-for-profit organization, Community Blood Services
is not affiliated with the American Red Cross. It is a
member of America's Blood Centers (ABC), a network of
non-profit community blood centers located in 45 states,
which collects about half of the U.S. blood supply |
| For
more information on eligibility or to make an appointment
to donate at the Riverside Square Blood Drive on April
12, please call CBS at 201-251-3703. |
| Riverside
Square (www.shopriverside.com), located on Route 4 West
at Hackensack Avenue, five miles from the George Washington
Bridge and two miles east of the Route 4 & 17 interchange,
is an upscale shopping center. Riverside Square offers
shoppers an experience that is anything but ordinary.
Among Riverside Square's 70 specialty stores are Bloomingdale's,
Saks Fifth Avenue, Pottery Barn (largest in the nation),
Tiffany & Co., Victoria's Secret, Gap, Coach and Louis
Vuitton in addition to The Cheesecake Factory and Houston's
Restaurant. Riverside Square is open 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
The restaurants are open Sundays. |
