Stirling Strong blood drive Feb. 22

Colfax High School will be the site of a blood drive next Monday, the blood drive being sponsored in the name of a classmate battling leukemia.

Inland Northwest Blood Center will be at the school from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. collecting blood donations.

As the school has done in the past, the blood drive is being named for Konnor Stirling, an eighth grader who has been battling leukemia for nearly two years.

“We've done them in honor of him since he was diagnosed,” said Heidi Lowe, ASB secretary, noting that doing this makes the students more aware of the need for blood with their classmate in nee...