The Kenai Peninsula Central Labor Council has announced that it is again offering a $500 scholarship to a Kenai Peninsula graduating senior or graduating home school student. Eligible students must:
Applications and instructions are available from any high school counselor. Completed applications should be postmarked no later than April 30.
Foundation announces city grant
The Homer Council on the Arts, Bunnell Street Gallery, Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies and Homer Senior Citizens have been recognized for support through the City of Homer Grants Program in 2003. For the last three years, this grants program has been administered by the Homer Foundation.
The criteria for the program were established with the City of Homer and take into consideration the programs and services provided within the Homer city limits, numbers of participants served, and the organization's capacity to be good stewards of the resources received.
Requests totaled $32,500 from these four organizations. The 2003 allocation from the City of Homer was $20,000 with an additional $750 coming from the annual income earnings generated by the city's endowment fund at the Foundation.
A special review committee was convened to review applications. The Homer Foundation Board of Trustees received the committee's recommendations at its Feb. 5 board meeting and voted to supplement the city's $20,000 allocation plus the $750 in earnings with $1,750 from the Foundation's unrestricted fund, making a total of $22,500 available for distribution. The following awards were approved: Homer Council on the Arts, $8,500; Bunnell Street Gallery, $6,000; Homer Senior Citizens, $4,000; and Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, $4,000.
For more information, contact Joy Steward, executive director, The Homer Foundation, 235-0541, jsteward@homerfund.org.
HVFD gets new equipment
The Homer Volunteer Fire Department has purchased the Laerdal SimMan, a full-body human patient simulator that breathes and speaks, makes heart, breath and bowel sounds, and actually has a pulse.
SimMan's patented airway allows for intubation and multiple advanced life-support skills. Emergency medical technicians and paramedics can practice CPR or defibrillator shocking on SimMan. He can also "die," HVFD said in a press release, for the purpose of putting EMTs and paramedics in a very realistic situation.
Thousands of people die each year due to medical error, statistics show. While patient simulators have been available for some time, their price and high maintenance requirements have made them cost-prohibitive for most training hospitals and organizations. SimMan provides affordable, easy-to-use, realistic training, and the opportunity to practice life-saving clinical, technical and decision-making skills without risk to patients or health-care providers.
Funding for SimMan was made possible by the estate of Lois Irvin, who bequeathed $55,000 to the fire department for training or equipment for EMTs. The new training resource will be shared with other medical professionals and teaching institutions in the area.
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