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Emmaus High Students to Give Blood in Emergency Drive

Forty-two Emmaus High School students are scheduled to donate blood in an Emergency Miller-Keystone Blood Drive to take place in the large courtyard at the high school from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Forty-two Emmaus High School students are scheduled to give blood on Wednesday as part of an emergency blood drive that will happen in the large courtyard at the high school from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. This week’s blood drive, run by the high school Student Government Association (SGA) in conjunction with Miller-Keystone Blood Center, is “student-only,” according to Michael Mihalik, EHS science teacher and SGA adviser. “It’s just a student emergency blood drive,” Mihalik writes in an email message to Emmaus Patch. “We're not having a full-blown blood drive like we usually have, as we'll wait on that for May. “On Wednesday, we only have 42 available slots and they have all been filled in by current students,” he writes. Miller-Keystone Blood …

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Wet Weather may Mean Small Crops, High Prices

Local farmers are struggling with damage to crops from record rainfall and difficulty harvesting in muddy conditions.

Keith Hausman, a popular vendor at the Emmaus Farmers' Market, is renowned for driving his John Deere tractor with a cart full of fruit and vegetables to town on Sunday mornings. With two tropical storms producing record rainfall in the Lehigh Valley, he’s thinking of alternative transportation. “Perhaps I may bring a boat instead of a tractor,” he laughed. On Aug. 27 Irene brought five inches of rain to the Lehigh Valley, making August the wettest month in history at Lehigh Valley International Airport with 13.5 inches of rain. Lee followed with a predicted three to seven inches of rain through Sept. 8. Farmer Mark Lichtenwalner, a Lower Macungie farmer, said flooding is not all that rare to Pennsylvania. “I’ve seen this happen before,” …

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Local Auto Repair Shop to Host Blood Drive Saturday

Safari Automotive Sales and Service is counting on the giving nature of Emmaus community to help mitigate blood shortage.

This is just another one of those small stories that goes to the very heart of what makes Emmaus, Emmaus. It’s about a business owner named Ali Rizvi who saw a need and decided to try to fill it. Rizvi owns Safari Automotive Sales and Service, located at 945 Chestnut St. in Emmaus. He has owned the Emmaus auto repair shop for the past three years – it was previously Jim’s Chestnut Street Station. The Emmaus location is Rizvi’s second Safari storefront. His original place of business is in Allentown at 750 N. Fenwick St., near Coca-Cola Park. But this story is about Emmaus. Safari Automotive in Emmaus will be the site of a community blood drive on Saturday, July 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The drive will be run by Miller-Keystone Blood Center…

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