{"id":15267,"date":"2020-06-29T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=15267"},"modified":"2020-06-29T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:00:23","slug":"elmsdale-lantz-fire-departments-in-friendly-challenge-for-noble-cup-bragging-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=15267","title":{"rendered":"Elmsdale, Lantz fire departments in friendly challenge for Noble Cup bragging rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LANTZ:<\/strong> Two local fire departments are in a friendly competition to see who can donate the most blood with the end goal being to raise awareness of donating plasma, whole blood, and platelets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elmsdale and Lantz Volunteer Fire Departments are currently competing against one another in the friendly challenge aptly title \u201cPlasma 2020.” Whoever has donated the most at the end of the year being declared the \u201cNoble Cup Champions.\u201d Currently, as of June 24, Lantz was well out in front of Elmsdale at 16-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlasma can be extracted from a whole blood donation but donating plasma from source (that’s you and me) is a more effective means of collecting that donation,\u201d said Lantz Firefighter Doug Hankinson. \u201cAlso, plasma is used for burn victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFirefighters have a long history of supporting burn victims in various ways. Donating blood products, specifically plasma is just one more way in which we can offer our support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The departments get together on what they call health and wellness nights about four times a year where they play various games and rec activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plasma 2020 challenge was brought up and Elmsdale didn\u2019t hesitate to take Lantz up on the challenge, said Elmsdale fire chief Kevin Goodman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hankinson said Elmsdale and Lantz have each registered as a ‘team’ with Canadian Blood Services (CBS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore than this individual participating members and members’ partners register as well,\u201d he said. \u201cFor each time we donate that donation is logged with CBS. The 2020 Challenge is for each Department to donate a minimum of 20 units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The departments participation in this challenge is to add another level of how both support their communities, said Hankinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the most part we only hear from members of the community when there is a problem, a big problem,\u201d he said. \u201cMaking these donations will help a variety of folks at a time when they may not specifically call upon the Fire Service for assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hankinson hopes other fire departments may be interested in participating after hearing about this challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LANTZ: Two local fire departments are in a friendly competition to see who can donate the most blood with the end goal being to raise awareness of donating plasma, whole blood, and platelets. Elmsdale and Lantz Volunteer Fire Departments are currently competing against one another in the friendly challenge aptly title \u201cPlasma 2020.” Whoever has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[1202,1203,196,1085,244,1204,1205,1206],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-canadian-blood-services","tag-challenge","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale-fire","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-lantz-fire","tag-noble-cup","tag-plasma-202"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}