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Annual Pause to Give Life
April 23 @ 1:00 pm
Door County Medical Center (DCMC) will join with dozens of Wisconsin hospitals, businesses, and community organizations across the state by hosting the annual Pause to Give Life event—a statewide Donate Life Flag-raising ceremony and moment of silence that promotes not only the mission of organ, tissue and eye donation, but also honors donors and their families. The event will begin at 1 p.m., with opening remarks. At 1:08 p.m. the Donate Life Flag will be raised by Don and Polly Helm, parents of organ donor Ellie Helm, and will be followed by a 1-minute, 3-second moment of silence. The timing of the flag raising is significant and purposeful. The Donate Life Flag is raised at 1:08 p.m. to recognize the fact that 1 donor can save 8 lives—the 1-minute, 3-second moment of silence honors the more than 103,000 patients currently waiting for a life-saving transplant in the U.S.