Blood drive will save many lives and honor one

Ellen Tichy, holding flowers, at a LifeStream blood drive on New Year’s Eve 2020, which would have been her daughter’s 21st birthday. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo
Ellen Tichy watched her daughter Cassi lose her battle to Ewing sarcoma on May 20, 2018. On the fifth anniversary of that loss, Tichy is hosting a blood drive in San Jacinto to help others in need while honoring her daughter’s memory and bringing awareness to the need for more childhood cancer research.On Saturday, May 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., a LifeStream bloodmobile will be parked at the San Jacinto Stater Bros. market, 1537 S. San Jacinto Ave., to receive life-saving donations.Tichy, of Hemet, works closely with LifeStream to host monthly blood drives in the community. It helps the blood bank replenish their blood supply which is experiencing a critical shortage. She is hoping to have at least 50 donors at this upcoming event, “ten for every year of this heartbreaking
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