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Donor Turnout Surpasses Expectations at the Chicago Auto Show

15 February 1999

Donor Turnout Surpasses Expectations at the Chicago Auto Show

    CHICAGO, Feb. 12 -- The LifeSource Donor Coach is not the
latest model vehicle on the floor of Chicago Auto Show, but show goers are
flocking to the display featuring Saturn's National Donor Day.
    While there, they are meeting actual transplant recipients and
representatives of the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois (ROBI) and signing
organ donor cards.  The Saturn-supported Hendrick Fund of the Marrow
Foundation is providing testing for potential marrow donors to become a part
of the National Marrow Donor Program.  Whole blood donations are triple
initial expectations and people are pledging whole blood and platelet
donations for a future date at LifeSource donor centers and blood drives.
    Tomorrow, Feb. 13, is the official Saturn Donor Day.  As car shoppers
across the country participate in similar drives with Saturn retailers, donors
in Chicago will be donating at the first-ever blood drive within an auto
show -- the 91st Annual Chicago Auto Show.
    All Chicago-area Saturn retailers will promote National Donor Day tomorrow
and actual blood drives are planned for Saturn of Chicago, Libertyville and
South Holland.
    LifeSource Blood Services, Illinois' largest non-profit blood center,
provides blood and blood products to the greater metropolitan Chicagoland
area.