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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Donate Life Sit-in Slated

The News-Messenger
MAUMEE -- In the midst of April/National Donate Life Month, several northwest Ohioans will take a seat to take a stand on the importance of organ and tissue donation.

Two Fremont residents will be featured during the sit-in -- liver recipient Ken Dumminger and kidney recipient Troy Lewis.

Life Connection of Ohio, the organ procurement organization that serves northwest and west central Ohio, is gearing up for its second annual 24-hour Donate Life Sit-in at 9:30 a.m. April 17 through 9:30 a.m. April 18, at WTOL, 730 N. Summit St., Toledo.

During this round-the-clock event, transplant recipients, donor family members, living donors and those who support the cause will rotate in and out of the Green Chair, the star of Life Connection of Ohio's latest awareness campaign.

The overstuffed Green Chair's meaning is two-fold -- when it is empty, the Green Chair represents overwhelming sadness from the loss of someone who was waiting for a transplant that never came.

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