Highline Community College

CALENDAR ITEM

FOR RELEASE:  IMMEDIATELY

DATE:                  March 10, 2009

CONTACT:         Teresa Trillo: (206) 878-3710, ext. 3646; ttrillo@highline.edu

Lisa Skari: (206) 870-3705; lskari@highline.edu

Event: Blood drive

Date: Wednesday, April 8

Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; closed for lunch from 11-11:45 a.m.

Location: Highline Community College’s main campus, Building 2

Highline’s main campus is located midway between Seattle and Tacoma at South 240th Street and Pacific Highway South (Highway 99); address: 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, WA 98198.

Description: Highline Community College’s Student Nursing Club is sponsoring a blood drive for community members and Highline faculty, staff and students.

                              Those interested in donating blood can schedule an appointment through the PSBC’s Website, www.psbc.org, or walk in without an appointment during the blood drive’s hours.

                              Club members will also be making appointments 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 30 in the Highline Student Union (Building 8).

Sponsored by: Highline Community College’s Student Nursing Club

Website: http://flightline.highline.edu/nursing/

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Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 10,000 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day, evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state poet laureate Sam Green.