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Downtown Auburn Merchants Association

and Tiger Communications

Sponsor Blood Drive on July 3

Beginning in June 2008, the blood drive schedule at our Opelika Chapter office changed from every Wednesday to the first Wednesday of each month from 12-6. The change was necessary due to the dwindling number of donors who turn out for the Chapter blood drives. We asked for area businesses, Churches, schools and civic clubs to step up to the plate and host some additional community drives for us.

We didn't have to wait long for a response. Julie McGowin, Owner of Brand X Pizza in Auburn, called and offered to coordinate a drive sponsored by the Downtown Auburn Merchants Association. What is even more exciting is that the drive will be held on July 3, a time when blood is desperately needed. Here is some information about the drive:

Date & Time: Thursday, July 3 from 11 am -4 pm

Location: Baptist Campus Ministries, 135 N. College St., Auburn

Why Give? You get to save lives and there are some great incentives to come to this drive!

Merchants offering donor gifts are: Pita Pit, Auburn Hardware, Stamp, Stamp Your Feet, In The Bag, The Bike Shop, Behind The Glass, Private Gallery, Auburn Awards, Toomer's Drugs, Chick fil a, Coldstone Creamery, Compass Bank, Giggles and Coos, Auburn Wireless/Nextel and Ware's Jewelery. Gifts range from gift cards, to gift baskets, to free food cards. Brand X Pizza, will give a free large pizza gift card to everyone who donates that pre-registers online at www.givelife.org. So a donor could receive a t-shirt, a merchant gift, and a pizza. Visit www.givelife.org now to sign up for an appointment. Walk-ins will also be welcomed at the drive.

The American Red Cross thanks the Downtown Auburn Merchants Association and Tiger Communications for sponsoring this drive. Click here for news release.

If you can't make it out to the Downtown Auburn Merchants drive, please consider giving at one of these other area blood drives:

Sunday, July 13, 10-4 at Sam's Club in Auburn

Friday, July 18, 11:30 -4:30 at Master Brand Cabinets on Webster Rd. in Auburn

Wednesday, August 6, 12-6 at Lee County Red Cross office in Opelika