Another successful blood drive hosted at Ridge’s P.S. 102
TheĀ fourth annual blood drive in memory of Mathiew Johnson had its biggest turnout yet at P.S. 102 on March 16.
The drive is organized by local activist June Johnson, who in this way pays tribute to her late son, who served as janitor at the school, 211 72nd Street, and who, himself, gave blood regularly. “There is no better way to honor Mathiew than to sponsor a life-saving blood drive in his name,” reads the flyer given out in advance of the event.
Among those giving were Mathiew’s friends Brian Kinnane, MikeĀ Kinnane, Steve Avena and Brian Higginbottom. Higginbottom remembers growing up with Mathiew’s brother Douglas in Boy Scouts, and said he keeps coming back because he gets to see “a lot of people” and because “it’s the right thing to do.”