Pictured from left are District Supervisor Reggie Kyle, examiner Jeremy Casey, senior examiner Craig Lyons, examiner Dale Taylor, Judi Bryant, Carlton Bryant and Katie Paulson. Photo submitted
Thanks to the Boone Division of Motor Vehicles office, a lot of driver licenses in Watauga County bear the heart symbol.
The local DMV office was recently recognized for achieving the highest organ donor designation rate for its district and the entire state for 2011 — an honor the office received for the second year in a row.
The organization Donate Life North Carolina awarded a trophy and plaque to the Boone office for signing up 69.6 percent of its customers as organ and eye donors in 2011. The average state signup rate last year was 52.8 percent, the organization said.
Donate Life NC recognizes the driver license offices in each of the 14 DMV districts in North Carolina for achieving the highest and most improved donor designation rates in their respective geographic regions. More than 114,000 people across the country and 3,500 people in the state are waiting for a much-needed organ, the organization said.
“We developed this program in 2010 to acknowledge and honor the efforts of DMV personnel who serve as integral members of our donation and transplantation teams,” said Sharon Hirsch, executive director of Donate Life NC, in a statement. “We hope the awards program highlights their efforts and creates more opportunities for people to make the decision to donate.”
Read more: http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/Community/story/Boone-DMV-leads-NC-in-registering-organ-donors-id-007943
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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