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Giving Blood to Support Fort Hood
Military personnel at Fort Hood in Texas are asking people across the nation to show support for our troops by donating blood.
Friday, just one day after the shooting, the Central Illinois Community Blood Center was busy with a steady stream of donors.
Elizabeth Curtis, who lives in Jacksonville but works in Springfield, was one of them. Curtis called Fort Hood Thursday morning offering to help by donating blood to the Army post. But she was told Fort Hood, and the nearby hospitals, had enough blood for now.
However, officials at the Army post encouraged her to donate locally in honor of the Fort Hood soldiers.
After watching the news Thursday night, Curtis says she knew she had to do something.
"My heart went out to those people down there. And I felt it was my duty to offer my blood to help them since they do so much to help me," she told us just before donating her blood.
Curtis grew up in a military family, and feels it's important to show support for our military men and women in any way possible. So she's challenging her family and friend, and especially all her coworkers at the Willard Ice Building in Springfield, to match her donation.
David Parsons, the CEO at CICBC, says tragedies like the one at Fort Hood Thursday often bring a lot of people in to donate blood. The blood collected at CICBC is usually used for patients in our own area. But it is also part of a nationwide network. So if the blood donated here is needed for an emergency in Texas, it's very possible it would be sent there.
To find a location to donate blood, call 1-866-GIVE-BLD, or go online to http://www.cicbc.org/
Posted: Friday, November 6 2009, 10:49 PM CST
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State senator robbed in bake shop
November 20, 2009 16:50 EST
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- State Sen. Dave Koehler was attacked by a gunman who wanted more than cash from the Peoria Democrat.
Koehler was painting late Thursday in an artisan bakery located behind his home when a robber came through an unlocked door and demanded money. He says the $80 to $100 he in his pocket was not enough, with the man also demanding his cell phone.
Koehler says he decided he would tackle the man and take away his gun. The man ran off, and later arrested. But before he ran, the gunman bit Koehler, breaking a finger.
But the real damage, Koehler says, is to the reputation of his struggling neighborhood, which he has been trying to turn around.
Koehler is the latest Illinois legislator robbed. On Sunday, state Rep. Annazette Collins, D-Chicago, was robbed of her purse at gunpoint.
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