{"id":247984,"date":"2026-04-13T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:25:10","slug":"lake-highlands-ymca-to-host-blood-drive-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247984\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Highlands YMCA to host blood drive this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ymca-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97915\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ymca-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-97915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The donation event will occur out of a Carter BloodCare bus at the Lake Highlands YMCA. Photo courtesy Lake Highlands YMCA<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Highlands YMCA will host a blood drive from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Donors will receive a quilted tote bag, snacks and drinks upon donation. Attendees can <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.greatpartners.org\/donor\/schedules\/drive_schedule\/170346\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reserve<\/a> a spot by Friday, April 17, or walk in on the day of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The drive will be held at 8920 Stults Rd., Dallas, TX 75243.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776108310_425_8ddafd819415d55fa9c7d86e7ec264373e8df34784422adeec47a828c58c2d8f.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSyra Castillo is a senior at Southern Methodist University. She is a freelancer for the Advocate and will transition to the Lake Highlands editor position after she graduates.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The donation event will occur out of a Carter BloodCare bus at the Lake Highlands YMCA. Photo courtesy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-247984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}