All Tampa Bay area Golden Corral restaurants will host blood drives on Wednesday and Thursday, January 3 and 4, 2007. Florida Blood Services will have bloodmobiles on site from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. at:
10050 Ulmerton Road in Largo
All lifesaving blood doors wll enjoy a coupon for a FREE Golden Corral lunch buffet, a rent-one, get-one-FREE coupon from Hollywood Video, a T-shirt, and a wellness checkup, including a cholesterol screening, plus the chance to save lives!
Generally, healthy people age 16 or older who weigh at least 110 pounds can be blood donors. Identification is required prior to donation. For further information, call 1-800-68-BLOOD.
For those unable to donate blood, contributions may be mailed to Florida Blood Services Foundation, 10100 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716, or submitted on-line at www.bloodrelief.org.
Florida Blood Services provides for the blood needs of patients at 38 hospitals in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco and Pinellas Counties, through the generosity of volunteer blood donors. Over 750 donations are required daily, due to the high quality of medical care in Tampa Bay that serves the most critically ill patients throughout west central Florida.