06/18/2025
Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation placed #67 AED last evening at Slate Family Billiards !!
This AED was a “Pay It Forward”by Robert & Beth Shelnutt originally from Ducky's Dockside Bar&Grill!
CCF placed an AED at Ducky’s Dockside in August of 2023 . This past year they decided to close Ducky’s but they wanted to give the AED to another business so they chose Slates , who has been on the CCF list as we have a two and a half page list of locations wanting an AED . They dod this so they could “Pay it Forward “ in hope to save a life.
I’ve known Bryan & Carman Rich for several years and alot of their staff. When I first started the foundation and I was trying to raise money to get it going and Bryan let me have a Pool Tournament at Slates to help raise money. With the pool tournament as well as a fishing tournament a walkathon in a Saving Lives Matters Event , I was able to place our fisrt two AEDs in August 2021. Now here we are at number 67.🙌
Bryan has donated many baskets and raffles throughout the years to help me with several benefits. They have helped in our community for years with many events and I cant think of a better place to be able to have this AED..
Thank you both for all you do.
Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation told our story and gave our demonstration on the importance of having an AED and learning Cpr.
Eric Shimkus , who has been a Paramedic for over 20 years and who does this all as volunteer , gave 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 🙌❤️
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 Eric Shimkus from The Winter Haven Fire Department ,who does this all as volunteer , in doing the demonstration .
Thank you to my husband , Brian Beilke , for being by my side through it all and behind scenes, and Daily Ridge , for all standing behind me as we are the CCF Team !!!
Thank you 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 CCF Map Locations …
Culpepperaed.com
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