Defibrillators

Burgess said.

Emma's goal initially was to raise $3,500 and the through the campaign, which began last fall, Emma raised $4,000 in total.

"Everyone was so generous and I wouldn't have been able to get the defibrillator without all of the people who helped me," Emma said.

Chase McEachren, an 11- year-old boy who loved to play hockey, was being monitored for a heart condition called an arterial flutter.

He was inspired by hockey greats Jiri Fischer and Mario Lemieux, who also suffer from heart conditions.

He started a campaign to make Last October, Chase collapsed during a gym class and died six days later.

In his honour, the Heart and Stroke Foundation began the Chase McEachren Tribute Fund.

Following is a list of the local donors to date: Grand Valley Lions Club, Thomas Field Homes, Grand Valley Fireside Club, Paul Walker Trucking, The Maples Women's Institute, Deckers Tire Service, Bryhome Farms, Northridge Homes Ltd., Bill Bus, Jeff Menzies, Silverdale Motors, Judy and Paul Barclay, Amaranth Aggregates, Greenwood Haulage, Grand Valley Lifeskills 4-H club, Accent Safety, High-Performance Hockey School, the teachers at Grand Valley District Public School, Bev and Bill Poland, Elsie and Les...

“When I first took the position, there were only four volunteers and they were team members who responded to national disasters.” Hoping for more volunteers, Campbell said her plan is to have a team report to a site within two hours of receiving a call to assist a family.“Volunteers will wear pagers, which will inform them of a disastrous situation,” Campbell said, noting the Red Cross responds on a 24-hour/seven-day-a-week basis.

“Fire crews will call the Red Cross and then volunteers are paged to go out.“All we are asking for is a little bit of their money, a little bit of their time and a little bit of their blood,” she said.

“That’s all we are asking for because we are in great need of volunteers.” In order to become a volunteer, a person mus...

The new machines will cost about $1,400 each.

The expense will come out of the police budget for the current fi...