{"id":160980,"date":"2019-01-07T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=160980"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:14:27","slug":"battle-of-the-badges-encourages-blood-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=160980","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Badges successful  blood drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-131181\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BattleoftheBadges-UBS-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/>Update&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Over 200 volunteers gave blood during last week&#8217;s three day Battle of the Badges blood drive in cooperation with Vitalant, Jan 3,4, 5 at the Jamestown Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p>Those donating blood voted for\u00a0 either Team Fire or Team Law.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamestown Fire Department\u00a0came out on top over the\u00a0\u00a0Jamestown\u00a0Police Department, with 109 votes to 96 votes, for a total of 205 volunteers, donating blood.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalant says they need 250\u00a0 daily volunteers to donate blood to\u00a0reach area\u00a0 blood needs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- [if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The 4th Annual Battle of the Badges in Jamestown is January 3, 4 &amp; 5, from 11:30-a.m. to 6-p.m., at the Jamestown Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p>The battle, Team Fire vs. Team Law pits the Jamestown Police Department and Jamestown City Fire Department to see which department has the most blood donors earmarking their blood donation in their team\u2019s name, in the form of a vote.<\/p>\n<p>60% of individuals worldwide have the ability to donate, but only five percent donate the gift of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update&#8230; Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Over 200 volunteers gave blood during last week&#8217;s three day Battle of the Badges blood drive in cooperation with Vitalant, Jan 3,4, 5 at the Jamestown Civic Center. Those donating blood voted for\u00a0 either Team Fire or Team Law. The Jamestown Fire Department\u00a0came out on top over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csicelebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160980"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161572,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160980\/revisions\/161572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}