{"id":101433,"date":"2021-05-10T16:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=101433"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:27:11","slug":"chp-to-host-local-blood-drive-in-honor-of-officer-andy-ornelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/05\/10\/chp-to-host-local-blood-drive-in-honor-of-officer-andy-ornelas\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP to host local blood drive in honor of Officer Andy Ornelas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97979\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CHP-Officer-Andy-Ornelas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CHP-Officer-Andy-Ornelas.jpg 696w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CHP-Officer-Andy-Ornelas-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LANCASTER &#8211; The California Highway Patrol will be hosting a blood drive in Lancaster this Thursday in honor of <strong>Andy Ornelas<\/strong>, the 27-year-old local motorcycle officer who died in December from injuries sustained in a traffic collision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The blood drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, May 13, and it will hosted by the Antelope Valley CHP at their office, located at 2041 West Avenue I.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CHP and Houchin Community Blood Bank are joining forces to encourage local residents to donate blood in honor of Officer Ornelas, who joined the CHP in 2016 to continue his family\u2019s legacy in law enforcement and to help create a future that people would be proud of.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; \" id=\"theav-1940940436\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4504301096758439\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4504301096758439\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5907184250\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOfficer Andy Ornelas was dedicated to serving his community and to saving lives, both as a former paramedic and as a CHP officer,&#8221; said Captain Eric Broneer of the Antelope Valley CHP. &#8220;He was on his way to help a complete stranger when he made the ultimate sacrifice.\u00a0 It is in his spirit I hope people will make the decision to donate blood; to help save the life of someone they\u2019ve never met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. requires a life-saving blood transfusion, and each donated unit of whole blood can save up to three lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on the local blood drive, contact Synthia Rocha at srocha@hcbb.com or 661-331-1313.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Appointments are highly recommended for this drive. To schedule an appointment to donate blood, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcbb.com\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hcbb.com\/schedule<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information about safety precautions, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcbb.com\/covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hcbb.com\/covid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101436\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive-1024x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andy-Ornelas-Memorial-Drive.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/12\/09\/mourners-remember-chp-officer-fatally-injured-in-palmdale-motorcycle-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mourners remember CHP officer fatally injured in Palmdale motorcycle crash<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/12\/03\/virtually-bell-toll-tribute-ceremony-held-for-av-chp-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Virtual bell toll tribute ceremony held for AV CHP officer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/12\/02\/chp-motorcycle-officer-in-nov-23-collision-dies-of-his-injuries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CHP motorcycle officer in Nov. 23 collision dies of his injuries<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/11\/24\/av-chp-officer-suffers-major-injuries-in-crash-with-pickup-truck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AV CHP officer suffers major injuries in crash with pickup truck<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; The California Highway Patrol will be hosting a blood drive in Lancaster this Thursday in honor of Andy Ornelas, the 27-year-old local motorcycle officer who died in December from injuries sustained in a traffic collision. The blood drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, May 13, and it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}