Knights of Columbus plans blood drive in Huntley

Submitted by Huntley Knights of Columbus

The St. Mary of Huntley Knights of Columbus Council 11666, in cooperation with Heartland Blood Centers, will sponsor a blood drive beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 31, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road in Huntley. For information, call (630) 584-1458.

The Knights of Columbus is an international Catholic family fraternal service organization with nearly 1.7 million members in more than 13,000 local councils. Last year, Knights donated 68 million volunteer hours and $151 million in charitable and benevolent causes, sponsoring projects to benefit their church, councils, communities, families and youth.

Heartland Blood Centers is an independent blood center serving 32 hospitals in a 12-county area including Kane, McHenry, DeKalb, Will, DuPage, Cook, Grundy, Kendall, Lee, Ogle and LaSalle counties in Illinois, and Lake County in Indiana. Operating under a volunteer donor system, Heartland works toward collecting more than 160,000 units of blood annually.

Heartland Blood Centers can be contacted at (800) 786-4483 or www.heartlandbc.org/index.html.