(OLNEY/NEWTON) With a Blood Emergency is place throughout the Midwest, the American Red Cross is asking area blood donors to get out and give blood at their next earliest opportunity to help replenish low area blood supplies on hand :
Monday (3/23/26) at the Holy Cross Parish Center in Wendelin from 1:30 to 5:30
Tuesday (3/24/26) at the Blood Donation Center in Effingham from 11:30 to 7:30
Tuesday (3/24/26) at the Parkview Christian Church in Mt. Carmel from 1:00 to 6:00
Wednesday (3/25/26) at the Blood Donation Center in Effingham from 11:30 to 7:30
Wednesday (3/25/26) at the High School in Palestine from 2:00 to 6:00
Thursday (3/26/26) at the Blood Donation Center in Effingham from 11:30 to 7:30
Thursday (3/26/26) at the WB Gray Building in Bridgeport from 2:00 to 6:00
Friday (3/27/26) at the Hamilton County Hospital in McLeansboro from 9:00 to 1:00
Saturday (3/28/26) at the Blood Donation Center in Effingham from 7:00 to 3:00
Monday (3/30/26) at the House of Prayer in Albion from 12:00 to 6:00
To schedule an appointment to donate blood, call the ARC’s Blood Donation Center in Effingham, toll-free, at 800-733-2767 or go online to the redcrossblood.org website.