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Clinton News Record, 2016-05-25, Page 8You are invited to come and help celebrate two incredible milestones SISTERS Hazel Watkins May 26, 1916 100th Alma Finnigan May 26, 1921 95th BIRTHDAYS 8 News Record • Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Defibrillator installed in St. Columban soccer field because of young teen's fatal heart attack Shaun Gregory/Postmedia Network Krista Granger, Soddart's aunt, and Art McNaughton, Superintendent Paramedic for Huron County's EMS, are pictured here at St. Columban on May 10. Granger is currently on an eleven day voyage to donate ten AED's to eleven different sports fields. Come and Go Tea - Sat. May 28, 2016 -1-3 pm Huron View, Apartment Dining room Last Wednesday, the foundation known as Andrew's Legacy #11Forever donated a machine that could save lives Shaun Gregory Postmedia Network In May of last year, Andrew Stoddart rallied up and down the soccer field in Kintore, Ontario when suddenly the game took a turn for the worst and abruptly he collapsed to the ground; he would later die of a sudden cardiac -arrest. If there was a defibrillator on-site, he may very well be alive today. Since then his family has been proactive with their time to make sure another youngster does not suffer the same loss, a misfortune that took the life of a boy that did not have the chance to see his 16th birthday. To keep the young athlete's spirit lively, their mission is to have readily automated external defibrillators (AED) "everywhere On May 10, one day before the one-year anniversary of Stoddart's death, the foundation known as Andrew's Legacy #11Forever arrived in Huron County with shirts, large cardboard pictures as well as numerous other pieces of memorabilia. His aunt, Krista Granger, spearheaded the day's event and her son Tyler joined dressed in Stoddart's blue and white jersey. The two cousins' facial features and body frames were identical, Granger said. Nevertheless, they came for one reason and one reason only - to install one more defibrillator. The St. Columban soccer field was next on the list for the ATTENTION ADVERTISERS! DEADLINES Our Weekly Deadlines are as follows: ADVERTISING & EDITORIAL Friday @ 2:00 pm Clinton News Record www.clintonnewsrecord.com 53 Albert St. S, Clinton PH: 519-482-3443 POSTMEDIA OFFICE HOURS: Mon. - Fri. 9am - 5pm CLOSED TUESDAYS 11 -day trek involving the Stod- dart family donating ten AEDs to eleven sports fields. The trip is expected to be primarily in the Huron County and Oxford County area. Granger told the Expositor there is no time frame as to how long these efforts will continue for. Andrew was 15; he had no heart condition that we knew of. He was a healthy young athlete. He went down on the field for 12 minutes [waiting for an ambulance], they did CPR and he did not come home from the hospital. If this small unit can save somebody by getting it on them in three minutes, they could walk off the soccer field" — Stoddart's aunt, Krista Granger "[We will continue] as long as we can. As long as there are places that need an AED, we are going to be out there putting them out," Granger stated at the St. Colum - ban Soccer Clubhouse. "Andrew was 15; he had no heart condition that we knew of. He was a healthy young athlete. He went down on the field for 12 minutes [waiting for an ambu- lance], they did CPR and he did not come home from the hospi- tal. If this small unit can save somebody by getting it on them in three minutes, they could walk off the soccer field," Marty Bedard, the fire chief of Huron East, and Seaforth's dis- trict fire chief, Tom Phillips attended. They were accompa- nies by some local political fig- ures including Huron East CAO Brad Knight and Seaforth Ward Councilor Nathan Marshall. After the $2,000 AED was installed in the wall, Superinten- dent Paramedic for Huron County's EMS, Art McNaughton performed a demonstration to show the crowd just how easy the machine is to use. "They are very user friendly," said McNaughton. "You have two buttons - an 'on' button and a 'shock' button. What the machine will do is it will sensor if the person is in a shockable rhythm or not. If it is, it will tell you to shock. You press the but- ton and you hope to convert a person's non -beating heart into one that is beating." Currently there are roughly 90 defibrillators in the county and since they've been installed, there have been a couple of lives saved thanks to the state -of -the art machines. McNaughton went on to say that when a person is having a heart attack, approximately 75 per cent are in ventricular fibrillation. This means the heart's electrical activeness is disorganized, an occurrence where the lower pumping chambers undertake in a fast, abnormal manner. "Out of the 75 per cent, you can save about 30 per cent of those people," he said. "This is a fairly significant number and having them out and about in the area where they can (be) uti- lized is great." tinn.roefwawl Joe and Isobel Gibson May 26 Love from your Family