Dear New Glarus Area Contributors and Blood Donors,

A note from our Charge Nurse yesterday: Thank you for all your help, it was a wonderful day. Happy New Year.

Deferrals: 7

Didn’t finish: 1

Power Reds: 5 for 10 units

70 donors presenting

68 total units

Speaking for all of us Drive Coordinators, the food contributions were simply phenomenal, thank you one and all so very much! We want to recognize: Patti Elmer, Janet Keener, Bernie Beutler, Karla Larson, Karen Strahm, Cindy Yaun, Lynette Reed, Iola Isely, Silver-Lewis Coop, New Glarus Dairy, Eloise Kuenzi, New Glarus Hotel, Nancy Marty, Glarner Stube, New Glarus Bakery, Culver’s, Esther/Alp n Dell Cheese, Ruef’s Meat Market, Hoesly’s Meat Market, Edelweiss Cheese, Maple Leaf Cheese, Darla Schubring, Marlene Kowalski and Marge Klassy. Please forgive me if I read and typed your name wrong!

To sum it all up, we were allotted a goal of 60 units and you donated a total of 68 units. As each unit can potentially touch three people, you may have helped a total of 204 needs! That is truly awesome. Thank you so very much.

Appointments and rapid pass have really improved the flow, so even with close to half the donors being walk-ins, there was no looonnng wait for anyone. This is an issue we don’t want to see. Your time is important to us too.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ruth Anderegg, Sara Siegenthaler, Linda Coughlin, Bill Kuenzi