EKB News

Pikeville - Last year during a similar promotion Harley Shop officials held, they invited the Central Kentucky Blood Center to set up their Blood Mobile and collect donations from those attending their big sale. During that time over forty pints of blood was collected and officials were pleased with the turnout.
During the Shriner’s Christmas in July Bike Ride, the CKBC’s Blood Mobile once again set up , this time garnering sixty pints of blood at Harley Davidson of Lexington.
Once again this year, Harley Davidson of Pikeville held another sale and once again invited CKBC to come and collect blood, with a goal of topping the sixty two pints collected in Lexington.
While it seemed like a daunting task, with the help of East Kentucky Broadcasting’s on air promotion of the blood drive, the center had yet another overwhelming turnout… beating the goal they set for themselves at the beginning of the day.
According to management at the Harley Shop seventy people registered on Saturday September 30 to donate blood during time that officials with the blood center are calling for donations to help stifle a shortage of blood.