Pendleton - On July 10, 2001, Sergeant Dan R. Starnes of the Morgan County, IN Sheriff’s Department lost his life as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during a line of duty gun battle.  To keep his memory alive his surviving spouse, Janice, organized the Sgt. Dan R. Starnes Memorial Blood Drive in Morgan County later that year and has organized a blood drive each year since, in Dan’s memory.  In 2007, she decided to take the blood drive statewide and renamed it the Indiana Fallen Officer’s Blood Drive.  This month the 2012 drive began with donation sites located in nearly every county statewide.

Indiana Blood Facts:
- 1,000 units of blood are needed daily in Indiana
- Each unit of blood donated helps in three different ways:
- Red Cells
- Platelets
- Plasma 

Dates and locations for the drive in the Pendleton District are
June 21st, Madison County, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pendleton State Police Post, 9022 South SR 67
August 9th in Randolph County, St. Vincent Hospital 470 Greenville Pike in Winchester, 11a.m.-5p.m.
August 9th in Union County at the Liberty Church of Christ, 102 South Main St. 2p.m.to 6 p.m.