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Union County, NC – Cooking is the No. 1 cause of home fires

The kitchen is the place where family and friends love to gather, but it is also the setting of more fires than any other room in the house.

Cooking is the number one cause of home fires in this country and during [...]

WAXHAW, NC – Why settle for the ordinary trick or treat this Halloween? Instead, be extraordinary and give the Gift of Life! Blood donors are encouraged to roll up their costume sleeves Oct. 30-31. Presenting blood donors will be entered into a drawing for a pair of roundtrip Delta Air Lines tickets.

“We need [...]

Union County, NC – The American Red Cross Carolinas Blood Services Region is facing a critical blood shortage and today issued an appeal for blood donors.

Many donors are busy or traveling, school is out of session and donations in May and June dropped to the lowest levels the Red Cross has seen during [...]

Union County, NC – Bills this summer making you sweat? Present to donate blood during the American Red Cross “Super Summer Save” campaign June 1 through July 31 for your chance to win one of two $3,000 American Express gift cards usable toward rent, mortgage payments, food or gas, and take a break [...]

Union County, NC – The American Red Cross is ready to respond to the destructive winter storm that is affecting the country from just east of the Rocky Mountains to the coast of New England. The storm could impact a third of the population of the United States, and it threatens to bring [...]

Union County, NC – January’s snowstorm did more than cancel school and close businesses; it also prompted the cancellation of blood drives across the southeast United States.

Severe winter weather caused the cancellation of more than 14,000 blood and platelet donations through the American Red Cross, more than 3,200 of which were in the [...]