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                           In conjunction with the event, the Children's Hospital Los Angeles will be coming to the
                           Sportsmen's Lodge Hotel to help us for a Blood Drive and the National Marrow Donor Program will also be coming to help with
                           a Bone Marrow Registry Drive. Both are in honor of Hailey Kent. Please keep in mind that these two drives are not exclusive
                           - they are two separate organizations. You can choose to do both or just one.    Both the Blood Drive and Bone Marrow Registry will be taking place in the parking lot at
                           the Sportsmen's Lodge Hotel. We will have signs around the area prior so you know where exactly it is.
                           
 
 Blood Drive 
                              
                           
 
                           To make this blood drive as successful as possible the CHLA has asked us to have a sign up sheet prior to the Blood Drive
                           so they can prepare for the amount of people donating blood to make good use of their resources and have enough staff there
                           to facilitate. They just want to know that they will have a good amount of people coming to donate so they don't come
                           out there for no reason. This is not to say that people who do not sign up will be turned away. We welcome anyone and everyone
                           to join us and donate! The goal is, afterall, to get as many people there as possible. It would just be a great
                           help for us to plan a head and make sure that we will at least have 30 people signed up.   To sign up please email us at GHkidsevent@yahoo.com  and provide us with your name &phone number . If you have any questions
                           or concerns and wish to sign up with us over the phone, please state that in your email and we will provide you with our phone
                           number. As of right now, the CHLA only have available resources to schedule 2.5 donors every 15 minutes. So
                           space is somewhat limited. If you wish to donate at a certain time please email us with the time you'd like and we will put
                           you down for that time. However, we cannot guarantee that the time you want will be open until you contact us and we verify
                           that no one else has already requested that time. We have made an online viewing of the sign-up sheet for those wanting
                           to sign up where you can see what time slots are open and which are already filled. Once you contact us and a time is
                           established for you we will add your name onto our hardcopy list that we'll have with us at the Drive. Your full name will
                           not appear on the online sign up sheet for all to see. We will simply put the word "TAKEN" in that particular time slot
                           so people are aware it is no longer available.(*Note: You still need to provide us with your name and phone number regardless*)
                           Times will be given out on a first come, first serve basis - meaning who ever contacts us first requesting that time will
                           get it. If you do not have any preference to which time you'd like to donate we will assign one for you and email you back
                           with your time. If we find that we are getting more people wanting to donate than we anticipated we will look into getting
                           more staff there to help so we can accommodate the larger amount of people wishing to donate. Please also note that this sign-up
                           sheet is only for the Blood Drive.  For those who wish to donate but do not know what time they can make it there, please stop by the "Maxmobile" located
                           in the Sportsmen's Lodge Hotel parking lot on the day of the event between 8:30am-noon and they will try to work out
                           a time with you. We want to reiterate that we do not want people thinking that can't donate if they haven't signed-up. That's
                           not the case. Everyone is welcome.         
                           There is no cost to donate your blood however, there are some qualifications that everyone should be aware of beforehand:  
 
 
 Bone Marrow Registry
                           
 
                           There is a $52 registration fee to join the registry. This money goes towards lab costs for tissue
                           typing. There is limited funding, but unfortunately not enough to cover everyone. No drawing of blood or injections are required
                           for this. All it takes is a simple, painless swab of cheek cells for tissue typing and then it is sent to the lab to see if
                           you match any of the patients on their list in need of a bone marrow transplant. You will be notified at a later date if you
                           are a match.   Please click the NMDP logo below to learn more about the registration process and
                           donating bone marrow.
                           
 
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