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Parishioners in Whitefield, Winthrop shatter American Red Cross records despite pandemic Between the parishes, nearly 400 people gave blood, tripling the amount collected in 2019. Share St. Denis Church in Whitefield and St. Francis Xavier Church in Winthrop, both part of St. Michael Parish, not only found ways to safely hold blood drives in 2020 during the pandemic, they shattered records while they were at it. “We had a remarkably strong year at both St. Francis and St. Denis in 2020,” said David Stires of American Red Cross Blood Services in Portland, according to a news release from Dave Guthro, communications director, Roman Catholic Diocese of Maine. “We collected more last year at St. Francis than we have in at least 10 years and more at St. Denis than we have in six years. Since each unit of whole blood can be separated into three products red cells, platelets and plasma the amount we collected at the two churches potentially saved the lives of more than 1,000 p

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