On July 10, 2001, Sgt. Dan R. Starnes of the Morgan County, Indiana Sheriff's Department, lost his life as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during a line of duty gun battle with a burglary suspect four weeks earlier. 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 Officers Blood Drive. Next month, the 2009 drive begins with donation sites located in nearly every county statewide.

IndianaBlood 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

Listed below are dates, times, and locations for the blood drives within Redkey District which includes: Blackford, Delaware, Grant, Jay and Randolph Counties.

County	Date	Time	Location
Blackford	June 22, 2009	7p-10p	Blackford Co. 4-H Fairgrounds 310 E. Park Ave. Hartford City, In.
Delaware	June 5, 2009	12p-3:30p	Delaware County Sheriff's Office 110 W. Washington St. Muncie, In.
Grant	June 17, 2009	12p-6p	Municipal Building 301 Branson St. Marion, In.
Jay	June 23, 2009	12:30p-4:30p	West Jay Community Center 125 Hoover St. Dunkirk, In.
Randolph	June 15, 2009	3p-7p	Main Street Christian Church 220 S. Main St. Winchester, In.

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Third Annual Indiana Fallen Officers Blood Drive - Redkey District