Reminder: Bone Marrow Drive Scheduled For Monday, May 21

Newtown High School’s Peer Leadership group has once again scheduled a bone marrow drive at the school. This year’s drive will run from 8 am until 2:30 pm on Monday, May 21, in the school’s auditorium.

Representatives from the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be The Match Registry will be in attendance during the event, working to register possible donors. By completing a registration form and swabbing the inside of the cheek in four different areas, possible donors are matched up with patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases.

Anyone who is unable to attend the bone marrow registry drive can also register online at www.Marrow.org. The organization will send a kit to perform a cheek swab at home and then send the kit back to the National Marrow Donor Program.