Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Lots of donations at blood clinic

Bevon Clark of Herbert donates blood
at the Canadian Blood Services blood
donor clinic on Tuesday at the Moose Jaw
Exhibition Co. Golden Nugget Centre.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Bevon Clark is on vacation, but made a point of coming to donate blood.

“I can do this. This is something I can do to help out,” said Clark, who is from Herbert. “(I donate blood) every time I can, every 56 days. I was eligible (Monday).”

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Canadian Blood Services

“The need for blood never takes a holiday. It’s a constant demand that’s there. Even though we need to take our holidays, the need for blood doesn’t. It’s the time of year when a lot of people might get out of their regular habits and their standard of donating on a regular basis and might forget about it because you’re heading out to the lake or whatever, which is fantastic. We just ask that if people have the opportunity and the chance that they remember us when we are in town," said James Topinka, community development co-ordinator with Canadian Blood Services. 

Chantal Schroth of Canadian Blood Services helps take blood
from Sgt. Cliff Froehlich of the Moose Jaw Police on Tuesday
at the Moose Jaw Exhibition Co. Golden Nugget Centre.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

To register for a blood donor clinic, go here.

Emergency service personnel compete in Sirens for Life

Moose Jaw Police Service Sgt. Cliff Froehlich hopes his department will win the Sirens for Life challenge this year.

“Hopefully we’ll come out on top this year,” said Froehlich. “We are hoping to do better.”

Sirens for Life is a competition between local emergency agencies (police, fire and EMS), in which each organization tries to donate the most blood in a given month.

Froehlich said he and the personnel were at Tuesday's Canada Blood Services donation clinic at Moose Jaw Exhibition Grounds to promote the importance of giving blood.

“Last year it kind of rekindled my interest in blood donation, again with the emergency services challenge. It just brought it to the forefront for me,” said Froehlich. “In the summertime here with the travel and the chance of injuries, serious injuries and stuff like that it’s just very important that people keep this in mind.”

For more information, see an upcoming edition of the Times-Herald.