{"id":25831,"date":"2020-01-31T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=25831"},"modified":"2020-01-31T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:52:58","slug":"young-hockey-players-help-build-cardiac-safe-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/young-hockey-players-help-build-cardiac-safe-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Young hockey players help build cardiac-safe communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kinjal Dagli Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A girls\u2019 hockey team has made it their mission to make\nAurora and Newmarket cardiac-safe communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup initiative, the Central\nYork Panthers PeeWee Orange Crush team came together to teach people how to do\ncompression-only CPR and use life-saving automated external defibrillators\n(AED).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA few months back, one of our Aurora Panthers, Rachel\nGillies, saved the life of one of her father’s friends. She was time-keeping\nher father’s shinny game when a player went into cardiac arrest on the\nice. Rachel knew how to do CPR and use the AED and was able to save the man’s\nlife,\u201d said Trish Murphy, a certified first-aid instructor whose daughter plays\non the Orange Crush team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy is also the team manager and proposed the initial\nidea to the parents, who loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery hockey arena across the province has an AED and\neveryone that comes into any arena has the power to use it, if needed. The\nproblem is that most people don’t know what an AED is or how to use one,\u201d\nexplained Murphy, who taught the girls how to do CPR and use an AED. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the months of December and January, the team,\ncomprising 14 girls, went to hockey rinks across Aurora and Newmarket to share\ntheir know-how with people, teaching them how to do compression-only CPR and\nuse AEDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team also set up a crowdfunding page to place as many\nindoor and outdoor SaveStations (which house life-saving AEDs) across the\ncities of Aurora and Newmarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo date, we have raised over $10,000 and our goal is to\nreach $20,000. The girls have spoken to the Mayors of Aurora and Newmarket, who\nare helping us as well,\u201d said Murphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace, an 11-year-old who team member, hopes their campaign\nwill spread awareness about the use of AEDs. \u201cThis campaign has taught me\nhow important and easy it is to know CPR and use an AED. There is one in\nevery hockey rink and anyone can use it. I hope that by showing people how to\nuse an AED when someone goes into cardiac arrest, even a kid could save\nsomeone’s life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team spent four days visiting different hockey rinks\nto promote their campaign. Charlotte Heron, a 12-year-old who is a major in\nPeewee, is hopeful their mission will be successful. \u201cI have been on the team\nfor almost a year and this is my seventh year playing hockey. I hope that we\nachieve our goal of raising $20,000 so that we can place as many AEDs as\npossible and make our towns cardiac-safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campaign has boosted the confidence in all the team\nmembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophie Major, another 11-year-old, knows what to do if\nsomeone is unable to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cI learned how\nkids can make a difference. I hope there will be more AEDs in Newmarket and\nAurora because they save lives.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campaign will be on until January 31. To donate,\nvisit the crowdfunding page at\nhttps:\/\/crowdfunding.savestation.ca\/campaign\/32\/help-make-newmarket-the-safest-cardiac-city-in-canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kinjal Dagli Shah A girls\u2019 hockey team has made it their mission to make Aurora and Newmarket cardiac-safe communities. As part of the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup initiative, the Central York Panthers PeeWee Orange Crush team came together to teach people how to do compression-only CPR and use life-saving automated external defibrillators (AED). \u201cA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-30-0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}