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Last year we nearly filled up 12 pallets worth of school supplies! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fairgoers can also donate five canned goods (per person) and receive free admission on Thursdays between noon and 5 p.m. The canned food will be donated to local food banks and charities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are trying to go the extra mile when it comes to giving back, you can also donate blood through LifeStream Blood Bank every Wednesday and Thursday on the fairgrounds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We’ve brought our latest and best blood bank on wheels to the LA County Fair so fairgoers feel as comfortable and safe as they can when donating ” LifeStream Blood Bank Area Representative Eva Flores said. ” Summertime is a tough time for all blood banks, so we’re hoping to reach as many people as possible to make sure that we are always prepared to provide for hospitals at a moments notice.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The blood bank on wheels not only helps fairgoers provide for the community, but all the equipment inside is run on solar power energy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The LifeStream mobile blood bank is at the LA County Fair every Wednesday and Thursday during Fair hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more ways to save and give back, visit LACountyFair.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The LA County Fair gives back to the community through different school and local community based programs, but there are different ways you can come to the fair to have a great time and feel good about giving back to the community. Fairgoers who come to the Fair can receive free admission by donating five…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11],"tags":[134,136,179,1329,437,1330,614,1014],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","category-community-benefit","category-fairnews","tag-blood-drive","tag-blood-drives-la-county-fair","tag-charity","tag-donate","tag-food-drive","tag-help","tag-la-county-fair","tag-school-supply-drives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blood-drive-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/food-drive-1.jpg?fit=1024{62245692f563d27b9d36e7e01cc13940036b3fd1b9326aee961c7dac74c92b1e}2C682\")
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