Newsmaker
SUMMIT COUNTY — The Summit County Chapter of the American Red Cross has been named one of 80 best-performing chapters in the United States by the national American Red Cross. A total of 805 chapters were evaluated in fiscal year 2006. To achieve this designation, the Summit County Chapter was scored on a comprehensive set of performance criteria through its Chapter Performance Standards system. The chapter, which is made of up 28 full-time employees and more than 1,900 volunteers, supports the communities of Summit and Portage counties and the city of Wadsworth by providing health and safety training, responding to disaster incidents, assisting members of the military and their families, hosting blood drives, providing free medically related transportation to qualified individuals and helping local refugee families resettle into the community.
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