 Today, we are very grateful to be marking a milestone with the City of Columbia and our partnership to encourage local residents to give blood at the 10th annual Hoop It Up Blood Drive. We've been doing this at the Columbia Metropolitan Center for, this is our 10th year now, and it is a partnership between the Red Cross, our local board of directors for the Central South Carolina chapter and the City of Columbia. And we really just want to encourage people during this season, during the winter season, coming off of the holidays when we don't see as many blood donations as we need to serve our hospitals and the patients who require life-saving blood transfusions. So it's a time that allows us to really come together to get back, pay it forward for patients in the Columbia area and beyond. The impact of blood donations is invaluable. You are paying it forward potentially when you give a blood donation for a patient who may require a transfusion for an emergency such as a car accident, maybe a mother who experiences complications while giving birth, or a premature child, also for cancer patients who use a lot of blood and platelet products as their undergoing chemotherapy treatment. So it really is an opportunity to give more time to people who need blood transfusions for a variety of reasons, whether it be a medical emergency or a chronic illness. I came out today to donate blood because I feel like giving blood is a duty. Blood, we all need blood and accidents or life-threatening situations, blood is desperately needed and there's not enough people giving blood. I feel like if I give blood it helps others who need it and we all need blood. I came out today because I knew the importance of donating blood and I try to donate at least once or twice a year and I guess I should do more, but I feel at least I do make a difference. It's important for everyone to donate, but it's personally very important to me. In 1989 I had a life-threatening accident and the Red Cross certainly saved my life. I have rare blood and they got it to me and I'm here X number of years later. It would be especially important to us to help other people and who knows, it might save your life one day. For anyone who's unable to donate with us today at the 10th annual Who Put Up Blood Drive, I would encourage you to make an appointment for a later date, sign up, show up and help support the community and those patients who are in need of life-saving blood. It's an awesome opportunity to pay it forward. You never know when you or a loved one might need blood and the relief that you get from knowing that that blood supply is available, that you don't have to wait for it, that your loved one, your mother, your son doesn't have to wait for blood, it's priceless.