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UPDATE: 'Aimee's Blood Drive' at First Baptist Snellville Church

UPDATE: The response was so great this is now full. A local rotary club will host a blood drive in honor of Aimee Copeland on May 21, 2012.

UPDATE: The blood drive is fully registered.

The South Gwinnett Rotary Club will hold "Aimee's Blood Drive" today in honor of Aimee Copeland, a graduate battling a devastating flesh-eating disease. Aimee is the sister of a manager at Longhorns in Monroe.

The community blood drive will be held 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at inside the Family and Children's Center. Registration is requested for planning purposes, so click here to let the rotary club know that you will attend.

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The Shepeard Community Blood Center which supplies the JMS Burn Center in Augusta where Copeland is a patient will be collecting blood. Copeland will then  receive credit for every blood donation given.


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