Colfax High School hosts successful blood drive

COLFAX — Colfax Highschool hosted a blood drive on Wednesday, April 22, to complete the requirements to earn the STEM grant through Vitalant and the Blood Center Foundation.

Colfax Highschool must host and complete two blood drives to qualify for the $2000 STEM grant.

“It could have been better. We needed about 13 more donors to sign-up and about ten more successful blood donations. We had 23 scheduled donors and 25 donors presented to donate,” said Joseph Fairbanks, Senior Account Manager of Donor Recruitment for Vitalant.

Fairbanks reports that there were 21 successful donations yielding 25...