{"id":349030,"date":"2026-09-17T05:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349030\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:50:58","slug":"the-gift-of-life-queens-gazette-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349030\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Life &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911 held a blood drive on Sunday, August 30, at the Parish Center in Douglaston. Forty-nine pints of blood were donated which will save many lives. We would like to thank Rev. David Dettmer for allowing us to run the blood drive that will save many lives during this blood shortage.\u00a0Chairman\u00a0Frederick Bedell (not pictured)\u00a0would also like to thank those who helped in the blood drive, Sal Petruso, Guiseppe Petruso, Margaret Donhue, and Marie Morra. I would also like to thank those in the parish that donated the gift of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013Frederick Robert Bedell Jr.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-212337 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jNJisdow-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911 held a blood drive on Sunday, August 30, at the Parish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-349030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}