Card of Thanks - Bay Medical Blood Center

The Bay Medical Blood Center would like to say a special thank you to everyone who donated blood June 29 in Apalachicola and July 1 in Carrabelle. We signed in 68 people and received 65 units in Apalachicola, and we saw 27 and collected 25 units in Carrabelle, which ties our best ever day there.

Thanks to Susan Richardson for collecting gifts from the local merchants and for her countless hours getting the word out and rounding up donors.

Three dozen fresh Subway cookies were devoured by donors during this enormously successful drive and the fish bowl is empty. Please contact Susan to restock the fishbowl for our next blood drive Sept. 16.

We would also like to thank Beverly Connors for her e-mails; 42 people donated in honor of Wallace Hill. Best wishes once again for a full and speedy recovery, Wallace.

As always we could like to thank the Natural Medicine Shoppe for providing health snacks and allowing us to use their parking lot, Michael Allen, at Oyster Radio, and Royce Rolstad, at Forgotten Coast TV for helping to get the word out, and Lois Swoboda for writing such great articles in the Times about blood donation.

Thanks again to the local businesses who generously donated thank you gifts: Ace Hardware, All that Jazz, Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce, Apalachicola Fitness Center, Apalachicola Riverkeeper, Apalachicola State Bank, Artemis Gallery, Avenue E, Blue, Burger King, CVS, Café Con Leche, Café Momi, Debbie Hooper Photography, Downtown Books, Forgotten Coast Outfitters, Frame Shop, Gardens, Inc., Grady Market, The Grill, Harry A's, Honey Hole Liquors, IGA, Island Adventures, Ivanova's Pizzaria, Lane and Company, Lifeline Screenings, Magnolia Grill, Natural Medicine Shoppe, Oasis, Persnickety, Pesky Pelican, Piggly Wiggly, Retsyo, Richard Bickel Photography, River City Trading, Riverlily, Seahorse Gifts & Florist, Soothing Souls Massage Therapy, Stuffed Owl, Subway, Tamara's, That's a Moray, That Place in Apalach, Up The Creek Raw Bar, Veranda's, Windcatcher Charters and Dr. Zoe Segree.