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5/29/2006 - Terror alert system is improving, Ridge says

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Friday that the national color-coded alert system was working well - and was getting better. Ridge was in St. Louis to speak Friday night to the national convention of the Red Cross.

5/29/2006 - Number of Adult Day Cares in Missouri up 173 Percent

Judy Wilson Griffin had never heard of adult day care before her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Now she counts on it. Griffin's 82-year-old mother spends weekdays at the American Red Cross Adult Care and Enrichment Center in Crestwood.

5/29/2006 - Red Cross Safe Schools Program Thrives

Elementary and middle school students and teachers in Belleville are learning how to prevent and respond to potentially dangerous situations on campus. The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter's Safe Schools program is currently thriving at Central Junior High School and Westhaven Elementary School in Belleville.

5/29/2006 - Update on Our Humanitarian Response - June 13, 2003

Recent American Red Cross Activities

5/29/2006 - Remembering the Great Flood of 1993

A rampaging current of ocean-like waves gave the Missouri River an extraordinarily menacing appearance on Aug. 1, 1993, one day before it reached its record height at St. Charles.

5/29/2006 - Lissner sets up fund for teacher education

Chris Lissner's expertise is in investing. Whether it's for his investment firm or in the future of St. Louis area families, it's what he does best.

5/29/2006 - American Red Cross Honors Volunteers

Several volunteers from the West County area were honored recently by the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter during a volunteer awards picnic at Grant's Farm.

5/29/2006 - American Red Cross recognizes volunteers at awards picnic

The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter announced Nylin Bathke as the 2003 Volunteer of the Year during the Chapter's Volunteer Awards Picnic at Grant's Farm.

5/29/2006 - Fun at the pool comes with a few precautions

Summer is a great time of year: a season of sun, swimming and all forms of outdoor activities. But an element of danger comes with those activities, and it's especially important to stay safe when it comes to swimming pools.

5/29/2006 - American Red Cross honors St. Charles County resident

Nylin Bathke has volunteered for 10 years, beginning as an instructor in the Health & Safety department and teaching people how to save lives.

5/29/2006 - Military Family's Backbone Rides Out Some Complications

By the first of June, life was getting complicated for Capt. Maria Coppola. The Air Force nurse was being transferred from Scott Air Force Base to Wright-Patterson in Ohio.

5/29/2006 - United Way allocates $53.2 million to more than 200 agencies in area

The local chapter of the American Red Cross will get the largest slice - $3,871,340 - of the more than $53 million 2003 financial pie divided among more than 200 agencies earlier this month.

5/29/2006 - Flood Relief Came From Near And Far

Big needs, spread nationwide by print and broadcast media, generated a big response to the Great Flood of 1993.

5/29/2006 - Red Cross Service Finds Foster Sister in Australia

Since opening in 1989, the Holocaust Tracing Center of the American Red Cross has received many requests from Holocaust survivors and their families.

5/29/2006 - 120 and Counting

"Let's keep someone living so they can love and laugh again. There is no greater feeling than to think your blood may have saved a life today."

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