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Give Blood, Get a $15 Walmart Card

The Blood Center of New Jersey reports that blood supplies are critically low.

Blood Center of New Jersey is looking to donors to help fill a shortage in the blood supply.


A blood mobile will be in the parking lot fo the Walmart, 900 Springfield Road in Union, NJ from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, September 17, 2012.

Donors will receive a $15 Walmart card.

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Blood donations will be used for the patients in area hospitals who require life saving blood transfusions. As the Blood Center release states: "It could be someone in your family, a friend, a neighbor, a coworker… a baby, a mother, a police officer, a firefighter… we never know who it will be."

Donors are asked to eat before donating and to bring identification.

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If you have any questions about your eligibility to donate blood,
click on this link
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Call 1-800-256-6365 ext. 0 (Operator) for more information.


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