v May 5 Lake Lure Lion’s Club will hold its 21st annual open golf tournament, hosted by Apple Valley Golf Club at the Rumbling Bald Resort in Lake Lure.

While automated external defibrillators are at all of the county’s public high schools as required by state law, it is not required that they be in elementary and middle schools.

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Boston Scientific has completed enrollment in the multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial with cardiac resynchronization therapy, known as MADIT-CRT.

Portable defibrillators are becoming common equipment at your child’s athletic event. AEDs or automated external defibrillators, help restart the heart in the event of an accident. It happened just

Portable defibrillators are becoming common equipment at your child’s athletic event. Chris Clackum Reports

WEST PATERSON — Influenced by a baseball accident that nearly took a child’s life, the West Paterson Boys and Girls Club will place defibrillators at four sites around the borough to ensure heart safety for youngsters and seniors.

So did 75-year-old Floyd Sheckells Jr. And he had no way of knowing his guardian angel who was standing in line when he started to feel the first pains of a heart attack.

The move follows the death of a 10-year-old boy who went into cardiac arrest at LaSalle Elementary School last week.