Happy New Year everyone! 2011 is gone and it time to start looking forward to ConCarolinas 2012. And with that to also start planning for the 2012 ConCarolinas Blood Drive.

We did great for our first blood drive last year, we had over 50 people come out to donate and we collected 36 usable units of blood. That will help to save the lives of up to 108 people! So a big THANK YOU to everyone that helped to make our first blood a success.

I am getting recruiting started a little early this time around as we are trying to make this drive bigger and better than the last. Now there will be a few things that are going to be different this time around. First, I know for our drive this year we had an issue with the day the drive was going to be held and it ended up being changed to Friday. For 2012 the drive is going to be on Saturday, June 2nd from 11am to 1:30pm. With the drive being on Saturday we are hoping to get a bigger turnout. Also, we did have some issues with people who, after checking in, had to wait for their number to be called. Some of these waits were 15 minutes or more. What we are going to do this time around is when you check in, give them your cell phone number. We will try to let you know how long the wait is. If it is going to be a lengthy wait then you can go and check out the con and when your number gets called we will call you to let you know they are ready for you. We tried doing this part of the way through the drive last year and it was fairly successful.

And, we are also going to be having another raffle. Everyone that presents to donate will get a raffle ticket and at the end of the drive tickets will be drawn. There will be several prizes but our big prize for this year will be a brand new XBOX 360!

So if anyone would like to sign up to donate please email your name, phone number and email address to me at TuskenFan@gmail.com and I will get you on the list. Thanks!