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UPDATED at 4 p.m. Here are your five things to know today, Jan. 4, in Montgomery County: 1. Gaithersburg leaders were scheduled to discuss a request to annex the Potomac Valley Shopping Center into the city limits at tonight’s Mayor and Council meeting but that agenda item has now been deferred. You can view the agenda […]

This January, the American Red Cross is celebrating National Blood Donor Month and local Red Cross representatives are hoping you will join them by rolling up your sleeves to give blood or platelets. So, where can you donate? On Jan. 4, from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., the American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at […]

Members of the community turned out for a blood drive in honor of Officer Noah Leotta on Wednesday at the Public Safety Headquarters, 100 Edison Park Drive, in Gaithersburg. According to Red Cross officials, all 111 appointments filled within hours after the Montgomery County Police Department announced that the blood drive would take place in […]

UPDATED The Montgomery County Police Department is hosting a memorial blood drive on Dec. 23rd, in honor of fallen Police Office Noah Leotta, and all 111 spots have been filled. Although a blood drive was previously scheduled for this date, Police Captain Paul Starks said Leotta’s family members expressed their desire for Officer Leotta to […]

Bethesda resident Karel Robertson was a nurse at the Cornell Medical Center in 1970 when she heard a radio report about a bombing in Cambodia. She had known a number of young men who had been drafted and she wanted to do something to help them in Vietnam but not as a nurse. She found […]

Montgomery County Police Department and American Red Cross teamed up again for the annual blood and food drive on June 2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Public Safety Headquarters in Gaithersburg. In this MyMCMedia Extra, Garrick Robbins, team supervisor for American Red Cross, said this year’s blood and food drive event had a higher […]

Montgomery County Police Department and American Red Cross teamed up again for the annual blood and food drive on June 2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Public Safety Headquarters in Gaithersburg. Donors also had a chance to donate non-perishable food items that will go to the Captain Joseph Mattingly Food Pantry in Wheaton. “We […]

The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) is hosting its annual blood drive and a food drive on June 2nd in the first floor conference room at the Public Safety Headquarters, 100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg. The American Red Cross is managing the blood drive from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the event next Tuesday. […]

Linda Voss of  the American Red Cross talks about the need for summertime blood donors.   Related:

Disasters happen more often than you think. That’s the word from CEO Linda Mathes, of the American Red Cross, who says it is important to prepare for the summer storm season and other emergencies before they happen. Nationally, she said the Red Cross responds to 70,000 disasters a year. She said most of those disasters […]