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5/21/2008 - Red Cross YouthCorps Group at Fox High School is making a difference

Amanda Rhodes, 17, has discovered a passion for her community through the American Red Cross after starting a chapter of the YouthCorps at Fox High School.

4/23/2008 - Lawson Elementary First Hazelwood School to Use Red Cross' Ready Rating Program to Prepare

Lawson Principal Betty Scheller attended a Red Cross Ready Rating program press conference at the Anheuser-Busch brewing complex in St. Louis in an effort to get other District schools involved.

4/22/2008 - Purina Aids Red Cross

Purina is donating $25,000 to the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter in support of its Pet First Aid Program, which aims to increase outreach and participation in the program by promoting it in the community.

4/16/2008 - Red Cross Touts New Digs

The Jefferson County office of the American Red Cross had a little show and tell Thursday afternoon, inviting area business leaders and dignitaries to an open house.

4/15/2008 - An Eye For Safety

Receiving the Red Cross Lifesaver Award last week, two local children are proving heroes can come in small sizes.

4/13/2008 - Three Receive Red Cross Awards

Three Southwestern Illinois residents were honored with Lifesaver Awards from the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter.

4/8/2008 - Seven-year-old Who Saved Life of Friend Honored by Red Cross

Some friendships last a lifetime, but a friendship between two Granite City first-graders saved a life. In the middle of math class in January at Frohardt Elementary School, Benjamin Mathenia performed abdominal thrusts on his classmate Drake Wilson after he noticed Drake struggling to breathe.

4/1/2008 - St. Louis Prepares: Disaster Preparedness

The St. Louis Chapter of the American Red Cross is urging businesses of all sizes across the region to be prepared for a disaster of any type or size with its new Ready Rating Program.

3/19/2008 - Red Cross Volunteer Teaches Kids Preparedness

Warrenton resident William Dennager reads every piece of fan mail he gets, which is a lot, but he is not a movie star or an author. He is a volunteer with the American Red Cross.

2/29/2008 - Red Cross, A-B team Up on Preparedness

Seeking to help businesses, schools and nonprofits prepare for disasters, the St. Louis Red Cross and Anheuser-Busch Cos. are teaming up to launch a new self-assessment program in the St. Louis area.St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is both the major funding source and the first participant in this pilot program, scheduled to be unveiled this morning at a news conference at its St. Louis brewery. The Red Cross hopes to eventually roll out the program nationally.

1/17/2008 - Holocaust Survivor Finds Answers through Red Cross

In July 1942, at age nine, Rachel Millers mother gave her a new name and sent her to live in the French countryside. Three days later, her mother, two brothers and her only sister were taken to Camp Pithiviers, one of the Nazi regimes transit camps where detainees were held before being deported to concentration camps in Germany.

1/3/2008 - New Supervisor Named for Local Red Cross

Dale Chambers said his volunteer experience with the American Red Cross was so enjoyable that he jumped at a chance to work full-time for the agency.

1/2/2008 - Hazelwood East High School Students Honored for Their Good Deeds by the American Red Cross

Because of the lifesaving training skills they took and remembered when they needed them the most, Brandon Kirksey and Dorothy Rooks recently earned Lifesaver Awards at a ceremony held by the American Red Cross.

12/20/2007 - Morning Star Donates $3K to Fight Measles

The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter recently received a donation of $3,246.05 from Morning Star Baptist Church Mission Possible Ministry (East St. Louis, IL) in support of the American Red Cross Measles Initiative.

12/19/2007 - ITS Holocaust Archive Now Open to Public

The massive archive of Nazi-era documents contained at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, are now available to the public. For more than 60 years, the ITS Holocaust Archive was open only to Red Cross archivists, Holocaust survivors and their descendants.

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