Life Share Blood Center of Northwest Louisiana is hosting a Louisiana Auxiliary Wives Behind the Badge Cuffs & Hoses Blood Registry Drive in honor of James Garrett & Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Gregg Shy from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Riverside Park in Logansport.

You are ask to give blood and register with Be the Match for patients. A photo ID is required before giving.

The event will assist individuals like James Garrett of Logansport, who been battling a type of blood cancer, and Gregg Shy from Bossier City, another cancer patient, both needing stem cell transplants.