Red Cross Rescue Racers info meetings set
Sgambati to serve as head coach
 The official local charity training team of the Myrtle Beach Marathon,
the Red Cross Rescue Racers will host three free informational meetings to introduce the program to individuals interested in a safe way to train to run or walk the marathon or half marathon. This year’s head coach will be Jackie Sgambati, former head coach for the men’s and women’s cross country team and women’s track team at Elon University, who is now an adjunct instructor at Coastal Carolina University.
The first meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, at The Coastal South Carolina Chapter of the American Red Cross health and safety training headquarters, 2789 Pampas Dr., Myrtle Beach (on the old Air Force base). Two additional meetings will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the Henry B. Burroughs Family Conference Room in the Dr. Robert E. Speir Healthcare Education Center on the Horry-Georgetown Technical College Grand Strand campus, located just in front of the Red Cross offices.
Flexible training plans will be established for novice, average or experienced runners/walkers. For participants who sign up for the training program, there is a registration fee that guarantees your slot in the Feb. 14, 2009 race. For more details, call Angela Nicholas at 477-0020 Monday through Friday.
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"Ready to
Respond" training set to recruit Red Cross volunteers
 Having volunteers “at the ready” when disaster strikes is crucial to any disaster response. The American Red Cross relies heavily on trained volunteers to provide its humanitarian services to help people prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters. To ensure volunteers are ready when disaster strikes, the Red Cross provides free disaster training. A “call to action” is scheduled across a nine county region with the hope of recruiting hundreds of new Red Cross volunteers.
In a pro-active move to recruit new volunteers, Red Cross chapters are joining forces to recruit and train volunteers through a
“Ready to Respond” program.
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Governed by volunteers and supported by community donations, the American Red Cross is a nationwide network of nearly 850 chapters and Blood Services regions dedicated to saving lives and helping people prevent, prepare for and respond to
 emergencies. Led by 1 million volunteers and 36,000 employees, the Red Cross annually mobilizes relief to families affected by more than 70,000 disasters, trains almost 12 million people in lifesaving skills and exchanges more than a million emergency messages for U.S. military service personnel and their families. The Red Cross is the largest supplier of blood and blood products to more than 3,000 hospitals across the nation and also assists victims of international disasters and conflicts at locations worldwide.
The Coastal South Carolina Chapter of the American Red Cross
is a United Way community partner.
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One
of the best ways to help disaster victims, people in need where you
live, and people around the world right now is through a financial
donation. A donation to your local chapter helps people in need in
your community.
