Feature story in The Advocate

This is the beginning of The Advocate’s feature story on our Let Life Bloom panel discussion event.

MSUM’s Public Relations Student Society of America in conjunction with Alexa’s Hope and Life Source will host a panel discussion on organ donation at 7 p.m. tonight in the CMU Ballroom. The panel will consist of local people affected by organ donation including a mother of an organ donor and a woman who was placed on a waiting list for five years.

Visit this link: http://msumadvocate.com/2013/04/30/students-arrange-local-organ-donor-panel/ to read the full story.

Panel Discussion tonight!

It is finally here! That’s right, the day of our Let Life Bloom panel discussion for Alexa’s Hope & LifeSource! We are wrapping up National Donate Life Month with hands-on and personal awareness of organ and tissue donation. The event will be held in the CMU Ballroom at 7:00 p.m. Come join us in hearing from local families about how organ and tissue donation has changed their lives, register to be an organ donor, take pictures with your friends in our photo booth and enjoy some tasty free food! This event is FREE and open to everyone. We ask that volunteers and PRSSA members arrive at 6:00 p.m. and wear blue or green in support of organ and tissue donation.

Click here to read The Advocate’s feature story on tonight’s event!

Don’t forget to tune in to The Eagle 106.9 and WDAY AM 970 today to hear from Meredith Wathne and Blake Loyland about the event.

Click to listen to 101.9 FM Chicago’s The Mix’s interview with an organ recipient and their take on Donate Life Month. Donate Life Month Audio File

Check out the interview video below! It was created by students in our firm and features one of our very own, Blake Loyland.

Alexa’s Story

Let Life Bloom Panel Discussion update

The Let Life Bloom panel discussion will be held on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:00 p.m. in the CMU Ballroom.

We would like to have all volunteers/Positive Reactions members attending to be to the CMU Ballroom by 6:00 p.m. so that we can assign duties. Please wear blue or green in support of organ and tissue donation.

Help Wanted for This Event: Contact Brittany Thompson at brittanymarie.thompson@gmail.com if you are interested.

• Photography – pictures taken of the event and possibly a photo booth
• Booth Stationing – we are in need of two people, one booth will be outside the Ballroom and the other will be inside; to allow people to register to become donors

If you are a Positive Reactions member and are attending the event please notify Brittany Thompson at brittanymarie.thompson@gmail.com so that we can get an estimate of how many members will be there to help.

Join the “Let Life Bloom Panel Discussion” event on Positive Reactions’ Facebook page and join us for appetizers and stories from local families about how organ and tissue donation changed their lives!

Let Life Bloom speakers

We have nine speakers secured for our Let Life Bloom panel discussion event that will take place on April 30 at 7:00 p.m. in the CMU ballroom. The speakers are:

• Bobbi Fetzer, whose son’s lungs were donated after he died in 2011
• Don Hovden, who received a heart transplant
• Rhonda and Travis Kitch, whose son received a liver transplant when he was under a year old in 2001
• Sheri Hogenson and Kristi Fabre, Sheri donated a kidney to her sister Kristi who is a 2x liver recipient
• Nick Hillman, the Director of Transplant at Sanford
• Monica Kersting, whose daughter died waiting for a lung transplant
• Deb Andvik, a LifeSource liaison who has been woking to raise awareness for organ donation
• Sue Skedsvold, a liver recipient who works with LifeSource
• Blake Loyland, whose father received a heart transplant and then died one year after (Blake is one of our very own MSUM students)

 

Let Life Bloom – Panel Discussion

The Let Life Boom panel discussion is on schedule. It will be held on Tuesday, April 30 in the CMU ballroom at 7:00 p.m. We have secured speakers including:

• Bobbi Fetzer, whose son’s lungs were donated after he died in 2011
• Don Hovden, who received a heart transplant
• Rhonda and Travis Kitch, whose son received a liver transplant when he was under a year old in 2001
• Sheri Hogenson and Kristi Fabre, Sheri donated a kidney to her sister Kristi who is a 2x liver recipient
• Nick Hillman, the Director of Transplant at Sanford
• Monica Kersting, whose daughter died waiting for a lung transplant
• Deb Andvik, a LifeSource liaison who has been woking to raise awareness for organ donation
• Sue Skedsvold, a liver recipient who works with LifeSource
• Blake Loyland, whose father received a heart transplant and then died one year after (Blake is one of our very own MSUM students)

We have ordered the food and completed other preparations for promotion. There is a sign up sheet on the PRSSA room’s door to station a booth in the CMU for promotion. Please sign up for a time that works for you. If you would like to contribute to this event please contact Blake Loyland at loylandbl@mnstate.edu.