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Blood drive promotes “the gift of life” at NorthPark Mall

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center is taking advantage of the busy holiday shopping season by stationing a blood drive right inside NorthPark MallR...

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center is taking advantage of the busy holiday shopping season by stationing a blood drive right inside NorthPark Mall's doors.

"We actually consider this our Gift of Life Blood Drive. It's a great opportunity, people are out at the mall. They're shopping, they're buying gifts, what better opportunity can you give someone than the gift of life," said Lori Arguello of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Drive.

Arguello said donations normally decrease around twenty percent around the holidays, especially between Christmas and New Years Eve.

"The reason that donations tend to decline is that people are busy. People are on vacation, they have different things going on and so it's not so much that the need for blood is greater, it's that the supply isn't there," Arguello said.

On Tuesday morning, the Davenport Central High School Choir sang carols outside the blood drive to bring more attention to the event.

The blood drive was from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. right outside of Dillards inside the NorthPark Mall.

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