FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 6, 2005

CONTACT: SID GAULDEN, 803-896-8409

Or Community Relations Officer, 803-896-8144, box 3

 

SCDPS, COMMUNITY PARTNERS HOLD

FIFTH ANNUAL TROOPER ERIC F. NICHOLSON BLOOD DRIVE

 

COLUMBIA – The South Carolina Department of Public Safety joined with The Blood Connection, Misty Nicholson, widow of Trooper Eric F. Nicholson, and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., to hold the fifth annual TFC Eric F. Nicholson Memorial Blood Drive today. 

 

TFC Nicholson was killed December 6, 2000, while making a traffic stop on the frontage road near Woodruff Road and Interstate 85 in Greenville County. He was a regular blood donor and had given blood just two hours before his death. His wife, Misty, and The Blood Connection have worked together annually to hold a blood drive in his honor. 

 

The new Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., located at 1134 Woodruff Road in Greenville, has placed a granite marker in the landscaping at the store to remember Trooper Nicholson.

 

“The wonderful support the community shows continues to amaze me,” Ms. Nicholson said. “We are so grateful to the Cracker Barrel for donating the beautiful marker to keep Eric’s memory and sacrifice alive.”   

 

The blood drive continues to grow each year with locations at Clemson University where Ms. Nicholson is a student and the new Cracker Barrel store.

 

Locations and Times:

The Blood Connection                Law Enforcement Center              Presbyterian College

515 Grove Road, Greenville             4 McGee Street, Greenville               Student Health Center

8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.                          7 a.m. – 4 p.m.                                 106 Calhoun Street, Clinton

                                                                                                            9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.

1224 Spring Street, Greenwood       Cracker Barrel

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.                             1134 Woodruff Road, Greenville        Clemson University

                                                     10:30 a.m. – 7 P.m.                          Vickery Hall&Brackett Hall

1308 Sandifer Boulevard, Seneca                                                           9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

 

1954 East Main Street, Easley

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.