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April Blood Donations Will Help the Community Virginia Tech’s Squires Student Center is hosting the Blacksburg Red Cross on Tuesday, April 25th and Wednesday, April 26th, encouraging students and faculty to donate blood and help out their community. “The Virginia Tech student body has almost twice the population of Blacksburg, so students are very valuable resources for blood donations,” said Virginia Tech Red Cross Club President Katherine Frasca. According to Frasca, 21, the Blacksburg Red Cross, with the assistance of the Red Cross Club and the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, comes to Tech’s campus once a month in order to recruit as many blood donors as possible. For the month of April, the drive will be located in Squires Student Center in either the Old Dominion Ballroom or the Colonial Ballroom, depending on availability. The drive will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on both April 25th and 26th. Prior to the actual blood drive, the Red Cross Club and APO will hold “bloodsits” to sign up donors the week of April 17th to the 20th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the Drillfield. Individuals may also sign up online at the American Red Cross website, http://www.redcross.org/index.html. “There is always an urgent need for blood, particularly types B and O,” Frasca said. |
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Interview with Jack Bonner National Public Radio refers to him as the “King of Grassroots.” Fortune magazine has referenced him as the “guru” of grassroots. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have even gone so far to say that he is the “pioneer” of the grassroots effort respectively. So who is this man of so many titles? He is Jack Bonner, president and founder of Bonner and Associates, a ground-breaking grassroots lobbying firm located in Washington, D.C. |