09/16/2025
Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation placed #74 AED last evening at Port 27 !!!!
Last month Kimber's Bar and Grill raised enough $ having an event where they had several musicians throughout our community come out as the collected $ though several weeks so that they could do a “Pay It Forward “ to place an AED at a location of their choice .
Lake Wales Moose Lodge had chose Kimbers several months back as a “Pay It Forward “and so Kimberley wanted to continue and chose Port 27🙌
I met Amber Pearce several years ago as well as Debbe Owens , who both in the past have helped me with raffle items and benefits to help raise money for CCF. Now once again these two ladies had a big impact in making this happen to place this AED.
Amber works at Kimber’s bar and Grill and was a big part in helping raise the money to make this happen. Debbe works at Port 27 and who I was able to get to help me pull this all together as she was the one who connected me with the owners, Luis & Monica Sosa.
Luis & Monica Sosa opened Port 27 June 5th of this Year and what an amazing and beautiful venue . Luis & Monica both from Venezuela and has been here in the states for around 13 years now . This venue has been a dream of Luis and he finally got to make it all come true when he started pulling this all together and he still has more he is bringing to the venue with adding a restaurant to the lighthouse that they are building. . This venue has been packed out every weekend as they have a Brewery & many different food places , a coffee shop , many other shops and things to do for the whole family. They also have live entertainment on the weekends as my husband’s band , The Got UR 6 Band , played a couple weeks ago and it was one of our favorite places that we have been to with everyone there so welcoming and a sunset that was just breathtaking. It is definitely a place that all should check out .
Thank you Eric Shimkus , who has been a Paramedic for over 24 years at Winter Haven Fire Department and who does this all as volunteer , as he gives a demonstration on the AED and Cpr . We also incorporated a Choking Device and Narcan to carry in case of an overdose .
All of these I added to our demonstration in hope to share the importance of Saving Lives .
We also brought the importance of a Fire Extinguisher to your vehicles as I wanted to add this to our CCF Demonstration ,in honor of Jolynn. She was a lil girl we loved and lost due to a car fire back in Nov and we want to continue our love for her and her mom , Logan Deines with For The Love Of JoLynn 🙌❤️
The CCF Team were able to place an AED here in hope to help Save A Life 🙌
Thank you everyone and our Community so very much as without our community support we could not make this all happen .
In honor of Michael Culpepper, my late fiancé , who passed away from heart failure in July of 2020. I started the Foundation to help in my healing process as I wanted to try to help save others as I couldn’t save him . We raise money by sponsorships, donations, and having events. We place at least 2 AED’s a month in our community as well as we give out three scholarships a year. One is for Fire , one for Medical and one for EMT as we support all of our First Responders. if we save one person’s life, all of this is worth it.
CCF Mission Statement…
In Honor of Culpepper! With community support we hope to place a defibrillator on every city block. We may be the closest First Responder.
A Shout out to my husband , Brian Beilke being by my side through it all , our paramedic Eric Shimkus , Daily Ridge as our Media Sponsor , my son , Brandon Whitchard for all standing behind me as we are the CCF Team !!!
A Shout Out to Rescue 7 Inc. ., CoroMed & AED.US for partnering up with Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation and to all of our sponsors , ones who donates, & all supporters as you all help make this possible.
We all may be The Closest 1st Responder. It could be your friend your own family or even “YOU “ , you’re saving as “SAVING LIVES MATTERS “.
Look up our Website & The CCF Locations at …
Culpepperaed.com
