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damental skills for saving lives. Large paddles were replaced by small white adhesive pads attached to lunch-box sized Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training units that talk the trainees through the process. Allan, co-head of GWG’s phys-ed department has been passing on the critical information to his students for seven years and is grateful for the donation of training mannequins, AED training units, curriculum materials and program set-up his school and others are receiving. “If the time arises—maybe it’s a relative, maybe it’s a friend—they’ll know what to do and they’ll be able to react and call for help and keep the person alive,” Allan said. “The more people trained in it, the more likely it will be that the
If you spend it, will they vote? That’s the question municipal election candidates ask themselves at the start of any campaign. Disclosure statements for the 2014 general local elections across the province were released by Elections BC on Monday and in Chilliwack, as usual, the correlation between spending and getting elected was high. For the city’s top job, spending closely correlated with votes received as Sharon Gaetz was elected mayor with 10,183 votes and spent $8,022. Cameron Hull finished second in the mayoral race with 2,731 votes and spent $1,575, and Ray Cauchi finished third with 1,066 votes and spent $235. As for who funded the campaigns, Cauchi reported one donation of $260 to himself, while Hull reported a $150 donation from Jennifer Little and a $1,046 donation from Laureen Hull. Gaetz received $4,859 in donations from individuals (including $2,485 from herself ) and $5,450 from corporations. The largest donations the mayor received were $500 each from Mertin GM, Higgs Development Corp., Dunsmuir Holdings, Scimtar Enterprises, O’Connor Dodge, Tycrop Manufacturing, DBA Promontory Liquor Store, and Dan Matheson. Overall Gaetz received “significant” (more than $100) contributions from a total of 15 corporations and eight from individuals. Among winning candidates for city
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Dave Allan demonstrates the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training unit. BY GREG LAYCHAK glaychak@chilliwacktimes.com
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First the teachers are taught, then the students, when it comes to CPR and using a defibrillator
he defibrillators Dave Allan and his co-trainees were using Friday may be less dramatic than portrayed in ER and other emergency room situated TV dramas, but they are just as important to anyone suffering cardiac arrest. A group of more than a dozen teachers from around Chilliwack school district gathered in G.W. Graham middle-secondary school’s (GWG) library last week to participate in the Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation (ACT) high school CPR and defibrillator training program. It’s a program designed to set teachers up with the knowledge to train their students in the fun-
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