Auburn High School Students Save Hundreds Of Lives

Auburn High School Students Save Hundreds Of Lives

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Story Published: Nov 2, 2005 at 12:56 PM PDT

Story Updated: Aug 31, 2006 at 2:07 AM PDT

By John Sharify

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AUBURN - There they were resting on cots in the auditorium. They looked like students. They looked like they needed medical care.

"You're OK, right?" I asked Auburn High School senior Susanna Spaid. "Yeah, I'm fine."

More than fine. The students gathered in the school's gymnasium because they are healthy. And because it's cool?

"Yeah you're pretty much considered cool if you give blood," Spaid said with a smile.

That's what they're doing: donating blood. They're good at it. Make that 'great'.

Last year, the students at Auburn High donated more blood in one day to the Puget Sound Blood Center than any other organization. It was enough blood to save 1,400 lives.

I didn't know this until someone from the blood center told me, but high school students in our area provide a whole lot of blood to our community.

16% of our community's blood come from high school students. Student Rachel Richow wanted that story to get out about teens!

"A lot of people who do drugs and crimes and stuff they're always on TV because they break the law. People who donate blood, don't," Richow says.

Oh yeah they do. We did the story on KOMO 4 News at 5 o'clock Wednesday. The story of students giving one unit of blood.

Quick, how many lives saved? The answer is 3 for each one -- 3 times hundreds of students. That's a lot of lives, a lot of compassion in one school.

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For more information on Puget Sound Blood Center visit the Web site www.psbc.org.

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