Thank you to Tradies and Reponse for Life for providing our club with the opportunity to acquire a life saving device called and AED, defib or as made famous by Kerry Packer, the Packer Whacker! We will be collecting our new AED on Tuesday 30th at 5pm, we need 4 volunteers for the training and presentation. Please email me at southside.paddler@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.
I would also like to thank the indiviuals from the club ( you know who you are) who kindly donated the money which meant we could acquire the machine. It had been decided that we would not use our club funds for this acquisition and that it must be separately raised. We have been able to do this and hence are getting the device.
Below is the original letter of offer from Tradies and a description of the AED and links to the various organisations.
Tradies is teaming up with Response For Life, a local not for profit organisation who aims to reduce Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) through the distribution of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). With the support of Response For Life, Tradies believes there is a clear need for access to appropriate life saving equipment such as defibrillators in public places, particularly at our local sporting clubs.
To address this need Tradies and Response For Life would like to provide Tradies sponsored sporting organisations with subsidised defibrillators packages. Tradies has pledged to subside up to ten defibrillators during 2013 for those local sporting organisations interested in acquiring such life saving equipment.
The cost of one defibrillator is $2,500 and Tradies has committed to subsidising 50% of this cost with sporting clubs contributing the outstanding $1,250. Response For Life have recommended the ZOLL AED Plus as their preferred defibrillators as it offers Real CPR Help, supports the Australia Resuscitation Council’s complete chain of survival and has the lowest total cost of ownership.
This product is also used by the NSW Rural & Metro Fire Service, NSW Ambulance and Virgin Australia. The purchase price also includes AED training, wall signage and paediatric pads (for children 0-8 years). Should Tradies receive an overwhelming response to this opportunity, sponsored sporting organisations interested will be considered on a needs basis.
Our claim in points today was from the welcome return of Miss Danielle Polson to marathon racing, with a first place in D9. Kevin and Rod paddled a much more respectable time today and came 9th. Danielle McMahon and Jack Pethybridge had good first time races. Our other points came from Liam in his first 20km marathon. He came 4th, only 5 mins behind the winner….great comeback race Mr Rees, especially after giving the starters a 10min head start…..Another lesson to chalk up on the board, check starting times. 🙂 Technically Mitchell Hughes and his K2 partner for the World Junior Championships, Jayden Newell came first, but as it was there first race together in the series, it is another ranking race. Jayden is in Sydney this weekend to train with Mitch for the upcoming World Championships. We also had Aussie ski finalist and club member Sam Speers and World University Games Australian team member ( and club member) Nick Dawe come and train with the club today.
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r inhibited me from learning to paddle. Just a reminder to all the Maritime rules are 'all paddlers under the age of 12, must be wear a life jacket'. And if you are a bit older, a life jacket is ok too. If you are not a confident swimmer, or even if you are, a life jacket is not a hinderance. Today's life jackets can be very comfortable.
The 2013 Australian Junior Canoe sprint team was announced on Sunday following the conclusion of the National Championships In Perth. The 16-strong Junior team will compete in Welland, Canada at the Junior World Championships later this year. Mitchell Hughes, is one of 4 NSW athletes to have been selected, he is in year 12 at Wooloware High School. 