Frequent donors react to Red Cross closure

As often as they can, Mitch and Roberta Balaban donate blood at the Red Cross blood donation center in Kanawha City. They even make the visit to the blood center into a date night, before they get dinner. "It's not a fancy dinner," Mitch Balaban said. "It's just a night out in the middle of the week." But they'll have to find a new date night. They, and other regular blood donors at the Kanawha City facility, were disappointed to hear that the donor center will close at the end of the year.