STOCKTON – It all started with one younger brother who desperately wanted to help his critically ill sister. He stepped up and it led to:
Little pink dots – 478 of them.
The potential of 3,824 lives saved through organ donations.
The potential of 23,900 lives impacted through tissue donations. Continue Reading
Presented to Dance for Donors in honor of outstanding leadership in bringing together volunteers from Delta College who Registered 478 Organ and Tissue Donors and Won the Donate Life California Campus Challenge by Senator Lois Wolk and Assembly-member Cathleen Galgiani Continue Reading
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition presented to Dance for Donors by Congressman Jerry McNerney Continue Reading
Hip-hop group creates a song on the importance organ donation. Click to listen: Organ Donation Saves Lives
By Keith Reid
Record Staff Writer
December 25, 2009
STOCKTON – Laura Amador’s family receives a gift every day they see her. Her energy. Her smile. Her clean bill of health.
In late June, Amador, 27, received a kidney transplant to survive the effects of an autoimmune disease that caused her kidneys to fail. Continue Reading
By: The Stockton Record
December 4th, 2009
STOCKTON – An organ donor drive at San Joaquin Delta College has registered 462 potential donors, and the organizers – a brother and sister – were recognized Thursday for their efforts. Paul and Laura Amador know what it’s like to give and to receive. Continue Reading
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
LA Times
October 23, 2009
At 8:25 Thursday morning, Dr. Peter Schulam extracted a healthy kidney from a 60-year-old woman, slipped it into a bowl of sterile ice and wheeled it into the operating room next door. The donor, Nancy Seruto, a San Dimas mother, had never met the recipient, a 67-year-old retired flight attendant from Santa Ana. Continue Reading
Joe Goldeen
Record Staff Writer
October 18, 2009
STOCKTON – San Joaquin Delta College students are signing up in record numbers to become organ donors, outdistancing their closest Northern California college rivals by almost six to one in the 2009 Donate Life California Campus Challenge. Continue Reading
By Carolyn Weaver
New York
16 October 2009
“It was like planning for a long vacation.” That’s how Daryl Julich, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says he budgeted for the cost of donating one of his kidneys to a stranger: several weeks’ lost income and a no-expense-paid trip to New York City. Continue Reading
By Doug Caldwell October 14, 2009 Central Valley Business Times
A student at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton and his sister are spearheading a drive to get people to pledge that they will donate their organs for transplants (donor card sign ups). Continue Reading