Defibrillators

Mitch Twolan, township staff, the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario and Bruce County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) were at the Ripley Huron Community Centre on April 16 for the “roll out” of the Public Access Defibrillator Program.

The county will receive 11 automated external The county has agreed to fund a further three Public Access The generous $100,000 donation by a former local resident, Richard E.

Rooney, to the fund resulted in the widespread placement of life-saving AEDs and training for priority public sites.

The EMS has completed training and the county has placed the first two “It gives me great pride to participate in this unique initiative by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario,” Rooney, president of Burgundy Asset Management, stated in a press release.

“It feels great to give back to the region where I grew up.” See this week's Lucknow Sentinel for the full story.

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People just want to do stuff because he was such a good kid.

He didn't have any enemies, and he had a lot of friends, a lot of friends."Bree Stitt, 15, Madison-Grant freshman class president, said the class wanted to do something to keep Josh's memory alive and worked hard to raise money for the memorials by having a dance and selling bracelets that had McCormick's initials and basketball number on them."He was just a big part of the freshman class," she said.

"He meant a lot to everybody.

I feel pretty proud of what the community's brought and how many people have cooperated and how many people have been willing to help us out and have felt for the freshman class and Josh and everybody."Tuesday morning, as the Days worked on the memorial, Jerry Day commented about what the particular tree - a young red sunset maple - symbolized."We thought this size of tree was really pretty unique," he said.

"It's still in its youth, and it has a lot of years in it, and we just feel like this is a great representation of Josh and his life and the celebration of his life and his memory."See a video of work on the memorial for Josh McCormick at www.chronicle-tribune.com, and watch for ongoing coverage Sunday.

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