Tag: red cross

Our View: Make it easier to donate blood

Act for Alexandria has an extremely effective system in place to both encourage and enable people to make donations to the array of nonprofits...

Options for fixed-site blood donations shrink in Alexandria as need increases

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] One night in 2013, Sarah Taylor, the city’s legislative director, woke up in the middle of the night in a...

Red Cross testing blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Residents looking to figure out if they have antibodies to COVID-19 are in luck: The American Red Cross is now...

Whitaker’s Bumblebee birthday surprise

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Leading up to his fourth birthday, childhood cancer survivor Whitaker Weinburger told his parents he wanted “millions of people and...