When he and others donate, the blood is tested and stored. But it doesn't last forever. Red blood cells last for 45 days, but platelets -- which aid in clotting are good for just five days. Plasma, just one day.

Please donate blood to help Shepeard Community Blood Centers replenish critically low blood supplies in the CSRA; one donation can save three lives.

Our Time To Care winner for March spent her career as a nurse. She was in charge of the Nursing Home Care Unit at the VA. Even though Ethel Jenkins has been retired for 13 years, she never quit caring about people.

This month's Time To Care winner is a volunteer who serves people who are often forgotten by going where they are and meeting their needs. Larry Mazyck is living proof one person can make a difference.

Our Time To Care winner for November is only 17 years old, but he can teach us all a thing or two about bravery. He's teenager who risked his own life to help a stranger.

One local doctor who got a diagnosis that would slow most of us down. Instead, Dr David Whittaker is leading a life that challenges all of us to redefine the way we think about our health and our retirement.

September's Time To Care Award winner is Emily White She is a high school senior who has a real passion for helping others. And not just on her own campus.

Please take the time to care and donate blood at the Time to Care Blood Give In August 21st, 10am to 8:30pm at the First Baptist Church of Augusta.

This month's Time to Care award winner is a big man who makes a big difference in a small town's elementary school. Donald Perry is our Time To Care winner for August.

News 12 Time to Care sponsor and United Way hope to cash in on tax free weekend by asking the community to participate in their first annual Stuff-A-Bus campaign. The United Way was out at four local Wal-Mart stores in Augusta taking donations of school supplies for less fortunate children.

Representatives from Aiken, Burke, Columbia, Edgefield, McCormick, McDuffie and Richmond counties answered questions about what to expect this coming school year in Tuesday's Time to Care Back to School Hotline.

Come out and help the United Way STUFF THE BUS with school supplies for at-risk children in the CSRA.

What do you call a man who is well beyond retirement age, but continues to give and give? He gives the most valuable gift any of us really have: his time.

This month's Time to Care award winner is really a salute to the men and women who are out there right now just waiting to save your life.

November's Time to Care award winner is a woman who see's the future. She's not some kind of fortune teller, she works at Silver Bluff High School where she's like a mom to hundreds of students.

Kids 12 and under, come on down in your favorite costume to Time to sCare, today from 6 to 8pm!

If you have questions about what to expect this coming school year, get them ready for our Time to Care Back to School Hotline.

Our Time To Care About Education award winner for June is Betty Armando, a woman who volunteers at Curtis Baptist school. We found Betty doing what she loves most, reading to a class at Curtis Baptist Baptist school.

News 12, Aiken Regional Medical Center, Ashley Furniture Homestore of Augusta and Taylor Auto Group present Time To Care Family Fair, April 26th from 11am to 4pm at the Augusta Common.

This month's award winner stands out from the rest. We honor a student who has already learned that "giving back" has its own rewards.

Stop by Taylor Toyota Saturday, Sept 15 from 11am - 2pm and make sure your child’s car seat is safely installed.

The 27th annual Time to Care Blood Give-In was held at First Baptist Church of Augusta on Tuesday.

The Time To Care Blood Give-In is Tuesday, August 28th from 8 am to 8 pm at First Baptist Church of Augusta on Walton Way Extension.

News 12 and the Time to Care partners, Ashley Furniture, Subway, Taylor Toyota, and Aiken Regional Medical Center, brought the Time to Care Back to School Hotlline back for 2007!