Former Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks, left, donated blood with then Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Chief Operating Officer Thomas F. Zenty in this photograph in the Feb. 19, 1998, issue of the Beverly Press and Park Labrea News.

Parks, who later represented the Los Angeles City Council 8th District from 2003-15, led an LAPD effort that year to help replenish the blood supply, which had dwindled to dangerously low levels.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is currently experiencing low blood supplies and is encouraging members of the public to donate. For information, call (310)423-5346, or visit cedars-sinai.org/donateblood.