MMH hosting Thursday health fair
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
MEDINA — Medina Memorial Hospital will sponsor a Health Fair from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, offering low-cost screenings and an opportunity to speak with health professionals about diabetes, pre-diabetes, health insurance, pharmacy, organ donation …

Running along Garrett’s Path to donor awareness
Burlington Hawk Eye
Running along Garrett’s Path to donor awareness … The colors represent different organs or tissues donor recipients received from Garrett Brockway, who was 10 when he died in 2013. The red balloon represented Garrett’s heart, while other balloons …

DMV employees recognized, thanked for organ donation efforts
Johnson City Press (subscription)
The visit was to bring awareness to organ donation in general, Donate for Life and to celebrate DMV Appreciation Week. “They’re here to pay tribute to our staff who get you to register as a donor across our state,” Megan Buell, public information …

The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in on debate: Should everyone be an organ donor?
Etownian
Donate Life Club originated last year after Donate Life Club president, junior Kyle Lumbert, hosted a small awareness program in Schlosser last April and received a warm reception. Lumbert’s mother received a heart transplant in his senior year of high …

Mother meets the young boy who was given her daughter’s heart
9Honey
The parents were asked immediately after their daughter Alaiya’s death whether they wanted to donate her organs. “Alaiya was such a giving child that we knew it was … It normally takes him weeks to warm up to people he’s never met, but it was …

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DMV Appreciation and Organ and Tissue Awareness Week
KCWY 13 Where News Comes First
Ryea O’Neill at Donor Alliance told News 13, “About fifty-nine percent of Wyomingites have signed up and support organ, eye, and tissue donation. That places Wyoming ninth in the nation for that donor designation rate.” To help support and appreciate …

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Charity ball for Horton teenager, Jemima Layzell, raises £14k to help combat brain injuries
Chard & Ilminster News
The charity also works to raise awareness for organ donation by holding an annual creative writing competition, judged by their patron Michael Morpurgo. The Flower Ball is the second biennial event, with the first event in May 2015 raising around £10,600.

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Foundation created to honor boy killed at Disney resort helps families with kids recovering from organ transplants
Omaha World-Herald
The mission of The Lane Thomas Foundation is to raise awareness about the need for pediatric organ donation and to help families cover nonmedical expenses incurred during a child’s transplant. Matt and Melissa’s son Lane Graves, was killed by … The …

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Stunning Photos of Family That Lost Their Toddler Meeting the Boy With Her Heart
POPSUGAR
After Lacey Tiara Wilcox and her husband, Brandon, lost their 2-year-old daughter, Alaiya, to bacterial meningitis, they immediately said yes to donating the little girl’s organs to potentially save the lives of other children in need. Because of their …