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Stand Down Service Fair Scheduled
The American Red Cross has partnered with the Wayne D. Horner Memorial Stand Down to offer a Stand Down program on Saturday, October 8, 2011 Madison Armory, 1420 Wright Street, Madison, WI
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Help is On the Way for New York
This morning, Friday, August 26, 2011, the local American Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle will be leaving for New York in preparation of Hurricane Irene. Volunteers, Denise Davenport of Cambrid
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Red Cross Assists Residents of Apartment Blaze
Six volunteers from the Badger and South Central Wisconsin Region of the American Red Cross responded to assist residents affected by today’s early morning blaze at in Madison.  The apart
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Red Cross Responds to Fire in Rock County
A trained relief volunteer responded to an apartment fire in Beloit, Wisconsin on June 26, 2011. At about 6:00 AM, the American Red Cross received a call requesting assistance for one tenant who was
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In the early 20th Century, community leader Mary Hobbins put her full support behind a fledgling Red Cross chapter in Madison, Wisconsin , beginning a family legacy of service that continues today.

by Mary Etta Boesl, American Red Cross

Thursday, May 27, 2010 — J. B. “Ben” Hobbins is a member of the American Red Cross Badger Chapter (Madison, Wisconsin) Philanthropy Committee which oversees chapter fundraising.

Serving the Madison community as a Red Cross volunteer is in Ben Hobbins’ blood. Generations of Hobbins have been helping the Badger Chapter for more than a century.


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photo information:  Tom Mooney, CEO of Red Cross Badger Chapter alongside Ben Hobbins practicing CO-CPR

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