AED recipients announced for 2009 Duke Smyser Chili Blast Open golf outing

The Kathryn Weil Center for Education and Chili Blast Charities Inc. will be awarding three AEDs (cardiac defibrillators) to area non-profit organizations at the third annual Duke Smyser Chili Blast Open. This year’s recipients are:

• Harrison High School Student Success Center
• Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department
• Clarks Hill Fire Department

The Duke Smyser Chili Blast Open is set for Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 at the Ravines Golf Course, 8525 Division Rd., West Lafayette, with registration starting at 12:30 p.m. and play beginning at 1 p.m. A chili dinner catered by The Pub will be served at 6 p.m. For more information or to register for the Open, please visit www.chiliblast.org or sign up at the Ravines pro shop.

Harrison High School principal Doug Lesley and Bonnie Crawford, guidance counselor, will be presented with the Harrison High School Student Success Center AED at approximately 12:45 p.m. on Friday. The AEDs for the Tippecanoe Township Volunteer Fire Department and Clarks Hill Fire Department will be presented to representatives from each organization at the chili dinner, scheduled for 6 p.m.

Proceeds from the Chili Blast Open are donated to the Kathryn Weil Center for Education and used towards the purchase of AEDs to be placed with non-profit organizations in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties. The Kathryn Weil Center for Education oversees the Revive & Survive program, and works with other groups who fall outside the Revive & Survive guidelines, but still need AEDs.

Applications are still being accepted for the Revive & Survive program. To qualify, the organization must be located in Tippecanoe or Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Warren or White counties and may be tax-based. Qualifying 501(c)3 organizations are encouraged to apply at the Kathryn Weil Center or online at www.ste.org/aed.

The Chili Blast Open is named for Duke Smyser, who was a Lafayette banker for almost 30 years before succumbing to heart disease in 2006. The event has raised over $10,000 in the first two years.