Lafayette District- 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 begins 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 

The Lafayette District is comprised of the following five Indiana counties; White, Benton, Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Clinton, Carroll and Tippecanoe.  Listed below are dates, times, and locations for the blood drives within the Lafayette District.

County Date Time Location
Montgomery June 15, 2012 2:00 PM-7:00 PM Montgomery County Sheriff’s Dept. Crawfordsville, IN.

Tippecanoe June 21, 2012 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Lafayette Police Dept, 20 N 6th St.  Lafayette, IN.

Tippecanoe August 16, 2012 3:00 PM-7:00 PM Indiana University Health Arnett, Conference Room, Lafayette, IN

White  June 22, 2012  8:00 AM-12:00 PM White Co Memorial Hospital, Medical Office Bldg, 720 S. 6th St, Monticello, IN.

Warren June 28, 2012 4:30 PM-9:00 PM Warren Co 4-H Fair 304 Ross Ave  Williamsport, IN.

Carroll June 17, 2012 4:30 PM-7:00 PM Carroll County Fairgrounds 4th and Main St. Flora, IN.