In a recent two-day trip to Whatcom County, Erin McCallum, president of Enterprise Washington, voiced her organization’s messages regarding the upcoming general elections in November. McCallum made a stop at the Bellingham Herald and was a guest on The Joe Show on 790 KGMI-AM. McCallum encouraged voters to do their research about each candidate and […]
The Medic One Foundation and Seattle Rotary Club celebrated the 50th Anniversary of CPR on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at Seattle’s Westin Hotel. Dr. Leonard Cobb, the co-founder of Medic One spoke at the event, along with Sue Nixon, a Seattle resident who had a heart attack in Feb. 2007 and was administered life-saving CPR by […]
The Medic One Foundation recently announced the graduation of Paramedic Training Class #36 from the Medic One Paramedic Training Program. The thirteen graduates from around the region completed more than 2,500 hours of rigorous training to become certified paramedics. The world-class paramedic training offered by the Medic One Foundation is one of the major factors […]
The Seattle Times voiced its opinion about the possibility of a space shuttle coming to Seattle’s Museum of Flight in an editorial published September 1. The Seattle Times believes no other museum deserves a retiring NASA space shuttle as much as the Museum of Flight does. Aerospace has always been one of Seattle’s defining features […]
Part 1 of Dr. Bonnie Dunbar and Mike Hallman’s radio interview with Mike Fitzsimmons of KXLY 920 in Spokane. Part 2 of the interview
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar spoke with Kris Crocker of KXLY 4 News in Spokane about the possibility of Seattle being awarded a retiring NASA space shuttle. The Museum of Flight has been gathering support from across the state to help bring the shuttle to Seattle, which would be a great educational tool, as well as a […]
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, retired astronaut and the Museum of Flight’s CEO, was interviewed by Kristen Kirby on KREM 2 News at noon on August 26. Dr. Dunbar discussed the museum’s current mission to bring a space shuttle to Seattle. A retired NASA shuttle could come to Seattle as soon as 2011 and would be a […]
The Spokesman Review published an editorial in their Sunday, August 29 newspaper. The story reflected the numerous connections that Washington state has to space travel, including twenty-seven astronauts. It also touched on the criteria NASA drafted for competing cities to be eligible for a space shuttle, all of which Seattle seems to meet. While no […]
The Everett Herald recently published an editorial about the Museum of Flight’s mission to be awarded one of three retiring NASA space shuttles. The Herald touched on the excitement and history surrounding NASA’s space shuttle program and the amazing opportunity Seattle has to call one of the shuttles its own. The Museum of Flight’s bid […]
A recent study co-funded by Seattle’s Medic One Foundation found that chest-compression CPR is equally as effective as traditional mouth-to-mouth CPR in sudden cardiac arrest cases. The evidence, published July 29 in the New England Journal of medicine, supports a CPR strategy performed by bystanders of a cardiac arrest victim that focuses on chest-compressions and […]