With the Pandemic still weighing heavy on the Halloween holiday the local American Red Cross chapter is offering safer alternative to Trick-or-Treating.
Volunteers from the Central and Northern New York Chapter of the American Red Cross provided immediate assistance to six people displaced by a multi-family fire on Ferris Avenue in Utica on Sunday evening.
The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage because of an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The American Red Cross has a critical need for blood donors of all types -- especially type O -- and platelet donors, to help replenish the blood supply after the holiday weeks.