Pass CPR bill

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Pass CPR bill

With only weeks until the Kentucky legislative session ends, we need everyone to support Senate Bill 33. Once passed, this bill will give every one of our high school students the chance to learn CPR.

Studies have shown that almost everyone knows to call 911 if someone collapses from cardiac arrest; however only 30 percent know how to perform CPR. When started immediately, CPR can double or triple the chance of survival. SB 33 will enable teaching this valuable lifesaving skill to our next generation. Several Kentucky schools have already demonstrated that CPR training can be completed at no cost to the district, and it takes as little as one class period to complete.

SB 33 has already passed the Senate with support from Republicans and Democrats. The House has supported this bill in the past, and I encourage you to contact your state representative at 1-800-372-7181 to ask for their vote again.

Dr. John Loventhal

Lexington

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By Herald-Leader readers

February 22, 2019 11:51 AM

Expansive identity

Because of our experience as Peace Corps volunteers and staff living and working in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Fiji, and our experience since of knowing immigrants as good friends and family, we have a much broader idea of identity than what Cameron S. Schaeffer described in his recent Herald-Leader commentary (“Tribalism and media prejudice ruining America”, Feb. 16).

We know it’s possible for immigrant citizens to feel connected to and contribute to both the United States and their countries of origin. It is even possible for those who are American-born to be connected to and contribute to the United States and another country. We know an immigrant from Libya who has lived in Lexington for 35 years and says, “I value this country in a different way than people who were born here because I have seen both sides. There is nothing wrong with loving two countries.” Another says, “I am from South Sudan but I am also American. It’s both of me. I have to stand in the middle.”