Just two short months after a blood drive that saw 70 students at Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center turn out to donate blood to the Kentucky Blood Center, an August 9 blood drive held in the gymnasium on center at Perkins again saw students come out to save lives.

Kentucky Blood Center Recruitment Specialist Richard Davis said 55 students came out on August 9 to donate blood, a number that will save more than 100 lives.

Now a standing tradition, Perkins participated with the blood center’s quarterly drive by not only providing donations but in many other ways, as well.

The blood center’s staff was assisted by the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Student Government representatives and the center’s student health and wellness advocates to assure the drive process went as scheduled and serviced all persons wishing to donate blood.

“The turnout for this quarterly blood drive session was terrific as usual,” said Pat VanHoose, manager of the Health and Wellness Center at Perkins, “and the staff and students here wish to thank the Kentucky Blood Center for allowing us to assist them in this recent drive.”

Carl D. Perkins Job Corps student Alexander Carter was one of more than 50 students who donated during the Kentucky Blood Center’s quarterly drive Aug. 9. The drive was held in the gymnasium at Perkins.