...will help others, particularly Alaska Natives by signing up more potential donors for them. Gregg Schomaker, a Blood Bank spokesman, said 1,190 people had signed up to have blood drawn in Anchorage, Homer, Kenai, Wasilla and Fairbanks by...

...We appreciate that people came here because of a national tragedy, but there are tragedies here, too," blood-bank spokesman Greg Shoemaker said. Still, overall donations are up considerably for the state's only blood-collection...