By Emerald Collins |Staff Writer| LifeStream urges people to donate blood to continue to accommodate patients in need of blood. The organization strives to supply blood to local patients within the Riverside, Los Angeles and San Bernardino County area, including Loma Linda’s Children Hospital cancer patients. The local blood bank of San Bernardino and Riverside county focuses on helping people locally, but “only a range of three to five percent of eligible donators are only donating for those patients in need,” said Don Escalante, Lifestream’s public relations specialist, “There is at least 40 percent of local citizens who are eligible to donate.” Their mission statement reads “we … [Read more...] about Bleed and lead: donate blood