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Helping to save a life is a little sweeter during the American Red Cross’ Life is Sweet Blood Drive in February.  Come to donate February 14 and 15 at the Fort Wayne and Lutheran Hospital Donor Centers and receive a Cookie Cottage cookie. You’ll also be entered to win one of three great prizes: two tickets to the Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw concert on July 28 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, a one hundred dollar gift certificate to Cork ‘N Cleaver with a one night stay in a suite at Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott of Fort Wayne, or a Cookie Cottage gift basket filled with delicious goodies. These prizes are sweet treats that could be shared with your loved ones after showing your love of life this Valentine’s Day by donating blood.

Concert tickets are compliments of U.S. 93.3. The Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw tour, 'Brothers of the Sun,' will be the first time in 10 years that Chesney and McGraw have hit the road together. The concert also features special guests Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Jake Owen.

The Life is Sweet Blood Drive will take place at two convenient locations in Fort Wayne:

Fort Wayne Donor Center: (across from the Memorial Coliseum)

Tuesday, Feb. 14 and Wednesday, Feb. 15: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Lutheran Hospital Donor Center: (in the South Lobby of Lutheran Hospital)

Tuesday, Feb. 14 and Wednesday, Feb. 15:           noon – 6 p.m.

“Your Valentine’s Day donation, at the Life is Sweet Blood Drive, can help offset the slump in blood collections we typically see in the heart of winter,” said Sharyn Whitman, CEO for the Indiana-Ohio Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross. “Hospital patients need blood every day. Keeping donations steady and consistent can be hard when cold and snowy weather can affect your motivation to get out and give.”

You can help save lives and enjoy sweet treats at this year’s Life is Sweet Blood Drive. Make your appointment today to give blood, and ask your Valentine to donate, too. To schedule your blood donation appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org.

How to Donate Blood

To schedule an appointment to donate please call 1 -800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org for more information. Individuals who are 17-years-of-age (16 with parental permission in Indiana and Ohio), meet weight and height requirements (110 pounds or more, depending on their height) and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood.  Please bring your Red Cross blood donor card or other form of positive ID when you come to donate.

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