The We Are One Blood Drive Initiative

In early October, 2020, Dustin Adams took a digger on a trail that he’d ridden dozens of times. He got himself to the bottom but knew that things weren’t ok. His riding partners were able to drive him to the local hospital where he had to go into the Emergency room on his own accord, due to Covid restrictions. This is where he collapsed. Dustin was rushed into surgery where Doctors discovered that he had ruptured his spleen and was bleeding badly internally. They removed his spleen and Dustin received a blood transfusion of five units during surgery that helped save his life. --- Back at the factory, production manager Dustin Windross (regular blood donator) decided that it would be beneficial to look into what it would take to have a company wide blood drive. As a user group, mountain bikers likely receive more blood, post crash than we donate. The Canadian Blood Service was contacted and six months later there was a blood drive in Kamloops where 53 first time donors came forward to don