Blood drive slated for Wednesday at Bob Hope Airport

By Mark Kellam, <i><a href=”mailto:mark.kellam@latimes.com”>mark.kellam@latimes.com</a></i>

July 22, 2014 5:59 PM PT

A blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 23 at the Bob Hope Airport, 2627 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank.

The blood mobile from Providence Blood Donor Center will be at the airfield parked just beyond the valet parking drop-off.

Donors should be in good health, at least 17 years old, have a valid photo ID and weigh at least 110 pounds. Donors also cannot have gotten a tattoo in the past 12 months.

To sign up, email terri.hill@providence.org.

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam is the former city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.