Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. It is essential for surgeries, cancer treatment, chronic illnesses, and traumatic injuries. Whether a patient receives whole blood, red cells, platelets or plasma, this lifesaving care starts with one person making a generous donation.
What do you imagine the world needs more of? Practice that. If you would like more love in your life, then the most direct route is to practice being loving. If you want acceptance, gratitude, kindness, or joy in your life, then the most direct strategy is to practice being accepting, kind, and joyful. -- Dave Mochel
You may spend decades contributing to various retirement accounts. But for some accounts, such as a traditional IRA and 401(k), you must start withdrawing funds at a certain point. What should you know about this requirement?
A couple of weeks ago, one of my friends was down, and I thought of some ways to cheer her up. Therefore, I came up with the idea of steering her towards positivity and realization that “she got it”. Even if at that time, she did not feel she did.
Verde Valley School celebrated its 75th anniversary in June of this year. Over the school’s three-quarters of a century – so far – the lives of thousands of students and teachers have been transformed. And we are just getting started.
We all have our own ways of empowering ourselves. Some of the ways in which I have empowered myself through my lifetime include, for example, being a mom and an Ironman, knowing that my IQ score is 168 and that I can run very far, winning a battle against breast cancer, learning to say “No,” escaping Communism, and getting a PhD (not necessarily in that chronological order).
Gardeners in our area call September the “second spring.” Even as we are able to prepare for our fall-winter gardens, the “spring” feeling goes beyond these preparations for a new growing season.
After a several year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rotary Youth Exchange for Rotary Club of Sedona Village restarted this summer with Sedona student Alana Schrader spending part of her summer in Italy and her exchange sister, Emma, spending part of her summer in Sedona and visiting sites in surrounding areas with Alana and her family.
American Red Cross mobile blood drives are held in West Sedona and the Village of Oak Creek on a regular basis. At these drives both ‘whole blood’ and ‘Power Red’, also known as ‘Double Red’, donations are collected. So, what’s the difference between these two types of donations?