BOARDMAN Local BMV office to receive honor for highest organ-donor registry

BOARDMAN -- The Boardman Bureau of Motor Vehicles, 229 Boardman-Canfield Road, will be recognized at 11:30 a.m. Friday at its office for having the highest percentage of its customers among BMVs in the Mahoning Valley sign an organ-donor registry between July 1, 2002, and May 31, 2003.
The Boardman BMV had 48.5 percent sign, compared with the state average of 47 percent.
Boardman-area kidney transplant recipients Robert Morell and Tom Wiedele, along with LifeBanc representatives, will take part in the event. LifeBanc is the federally designated, nonprofit organ procurement organization for Northeast Ohio. Boardman BMV, along with other BMV offices in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties, are participating in the Ohio Department of Health's statewide organ donor education campaign, said Monica Health of LifeBanc.
In addition, ODH's Second Chance Trust Fund has launched a "feet campaign" inside 215 participating Ohio BMV locations by placing colored floor graphics, designed as footprints, with facts about the number of people waiting for an organ transplant and encouraging people to consider becoming an organ donor.
Anyone who signs up on the Ohio Donor Registry or contributes $1 to the Second Chance Trust Fund will receive a button and thank-you card.