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Give blood, get red for UL

by Anna Purdy

UL is headed to the New Orleans Bowl and our local United Blood Services chapter knows how to help you celebrate: shed some blood and get a t-shirt.

UL is headed to the New Orleans Bowl and our local United Blood Services chapter knows how to help you celebrate: shed some blood and get a t-shirt.

Until Dec. 18 if you donate blood at any Lafayette mobile blood drive or at the Lafayette donor center you receive this awesome shirt that says "Paint the Quarter Red." The t-shirts are around as long as supplies last so hurry in to give and get yours in time for the bowl.

The local blood bank is at 1503 Bertrand Drive and open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Wednesdays 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

The mobile blood donation center is active all over Acadiana. Today they are at GE Oil and Gas Pressure Control in Broussard from 1:30-3:45 p.m. Tomorrow it is at Women's and Children's Hospital from 12:30-3:15 p.m. and Campus Crossings at 1:30-4:30 p.m. Dec. 8 it is at Delta Rigging and Tools from 1-4 p.m.

Call United Blood Services at 235-5433 for more information or to reserve the mobile blood donation center at your workplace or school. 'Tis the season to give and remember, blood goes with anything and always fits the receiver.