{"id":292003,"date":"2026-05-13T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292003\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:40:14","slug":"coastal-bend-blood-bank-honors-high-school-hero-donors-for-lifesaving-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292003\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Bend Blood Bank honors High School Hero donors for lifesaving efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Coastal Bend Blood Bank is recognizing dozens of local schools for their efforts to support community health through student led blood drives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Students from more than 50 Coastal Bend schools were honored Thursday during a special luncheon at Mansion Royal as part of the organization&#8217;s &#8220;High School Hero&#8221; program. According to the blood center, school-based drives contributed more than 13,000 units of blood during the current school year, accounting for more than 30% of all donations in the Coastal Bend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orange Grove High School received top honors after collecting more than 1,200 units, leading all participating campuses. Blood bank officials say the program continues to play a critical role in maintaining local blood supplies and encouraging young donors to become regular contributors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the recognition event highlights not only the impact of student participation, but also the importance of ongoing community involvement in maintaining adequate blood inventory levels year-round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/coastal-bend-blood-bank-honors-high-school-donors-for-lifesaving-efforts\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Coastal Bend Blood Bank is recognizing dozens of local schools for their efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-292003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292003","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=292003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}