CLEARFIELD – Being prepared for emergencies is crucial at home, school, work and in your community. Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood, workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services – water, gas, electricity or telephones – were cut off?
Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. The best way to make you and your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes. We encourage you to:
• Get a Kit
• Make a Plan
• Be Informed
You can also Get a Kit, Make a Plan, and Be Informed by taking the Be Red Cross Ready online educational presentation.
The American Red Cross helps people in emergencies every day. Whether its half a million disaster victims or one sick child who needs blood, our vital work is made possible by people like you, who learn how good it can feel to lend a helping hand.
The American Red Cross needs you.
Various Opportunities to Help — Red Cross volunteers provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
Fits Your Schedule— Your local Red Cross chapter can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, whatever your schedule. No Special Skills Required — The Red Cross needs people with all kinds of different backgrounds, talents and skill levels. And, if you need training, we’ll provide it.
We Depend on Volunteers
Volunteers constitute 96 percent of our total work force to carry on our humanitarian work: Don’t wait another day. Find out how good it feels to wear the Red Cross emblem. The Brookville office is in need of office volunteers to help answer the phone, offer front desk and data entry assistance. Anyone interested in volunteering to help out, please call 849-2712.
A multiphasic blood screening will be held at the Clearfield Red Cross office from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 22. This includes 35 multiphasic tests. For an additional fee, you may schedule prostate lab test for men and TSH. Free oximeter and blood pressure screenings. Call 765-5516 to register.
Multiphasic blood screening coupons are available at the Brookville Office to be used at your convenience at Brookville Hospital. Tests include 31 multiphasic tests. Please stop in the office to purchase one 8:30 a.m. to 4:30pm Monday through Friday.
Everyone likes pizza and the Red Cross has a great offer for you. A card full of Pizza Hut coupons, good toward buy one–get one free lunch or dinner buffets and personal pan pizza, free wings or breadsticks with pizza purchase and buy a large pizza and get a medium free.
Coupons are $5.00 and available at Clearfield and Brookville offices. Redeemable in Brookville, Dubois, Clearfield, Philipsburg, St. Mary’s State College, Bellefonte and Mill Hall.
Health & Safety Classes:
Adult CPR – Clearfield – Sept. 5
Brookville – Sept. 12
Punxsutawney – Sept. 10
Infant Child CPR – Cleafield – Sept. 6
First Aid – Clearfield – Sept. 16
Brookville – Sept. 13
Punxsutawney – Sept. 11
All of the above classes begin at 6 p.m. Call 765-5516 to register in Clearfield or 849-2712 to register in Brookville & Punxsutawney.
Clearfield Bloodmobile Schedule
Wed. Aug. 22 Karthaus Fire Hall 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Tue. August 28 Mountain Laurel Nursing & Rehab. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thurs. Aug. 30 PennDOT 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Jefferson Bloodmobile Schedule
Tue. Aug 21 Saints Cosmos & Damien Noon to 6 p.m.
The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization funded in part by United Way and by your generous donations Please support your Clearfield-Jefferson American Red Cross. Checks may be sent to Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter, 1100 S. Second St. Suite 2, Clearfield, Pa 16830, or Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter, 275 Main St., Brookville, Pa 15825. VISA and MasterCard are accepted.
Red Cross is a United Way and United Fund Participating Agency and an RSVP Station.