I am pleased to
inform you that our recently concluded Blood Donor Clinic event at
the parish hall was indeed successful and encouraging trend wise.
We noted that
there were a number of knights from our council who kindly donated their
blood, including a few first timers. It was also noted that family members
(spouses, daughters and sons) of our knights donated blood. We are very
grateful to all of our donors who took the time and made the effort to attend
the parish and the CBS, Heartland clinics.
There were 54 (77
in Feb) donors in total and the CBS collected 35 (44 units in Feb) of blood. A
unit of blood when divided into components save 3 lives, thus the 35 units
collected at our clinic will help 105 patients at our local hospital.
Our grateful
thanks to Brother Priyal Jayasinghe who was the Chair for this event. Our
thanks also go to all the knights who assisted with the sign-up for
the event over several weekends, phone calls made to blood donor
registrants and making themselves present on Saturday to support
Brother Priyal.
Our thanks also
go to Msgr. Edgardo Pan, Parish Pastor and Joanita Miranda from the office
for the support provided.
Our Director PR
Brother Luis Gomes will be uploading some of the photos on our web site. Please
visit the web site @ http://kofc12067.blogspot.ca/. Please also take a moment to
visit the KOC Ontario State web site and click under Friday File. The
address is http://www.ontariokofc.ca/
Fraternally,
Edwin D'Cruz
Grand Knight and the Executive Team
St. Francis Xavier Council 12067
Grand Knight and the Executive Team
St. Francis Xavier Council 12067
