American Heart Association presents 2025 ‘Go Red for Women’ event
JACKSON, Tenn. — One Hub City event returns to paint the city red for a great cause.
Thursday night was the Annual American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women” event.
Speaker of the night, Kimberly Rush shares why this event is so impactful for her.
“The cause is dear to my heart because I actually lost my father to heart disease myself. Heart disease does not see a face or an age, it affects everyone,” said Rush speaker of the night.
Rush also serves as the chair, she said this year she wanted there to be a fun theme of 101 Dalmatians. One attendee learned at a young age the importance of taking care of your heart and others.
“I see my teammate unresponsive with agonal breathing, which you get zero oxygen when you’re in agonal breathing. Completely unresponsive wouldn’t move, wouldn’t open his eyes or anything. So, I do seven chest compressions on him and then he opened his eyes and gasped really big. Then I’m tapping him on his shoulder like ‘Hey are you ok?’,” said Logan Lott, attendee.
Logan says her parents trained her on CPR around the age of 12 prior to the incident that happened to her teammate at a cross country meet. Her father, also has a story behind why he learned CPR.
“My little brother drowned and I did CPR on him and we got him back. It was very important for me to make sure, and for us, to make sure our daughter knew CPR. We wouldn’t let her go work or babysit or anything like that, because anything can happen at anytime,” said Kent Lott, attendee.
Susan Morris wanted to give back to the community around her after learning about American Heart Association, and she has already beat her goal.
“My goal amount was 5,000 and I’ve already raised 9,000 and so they raised my goal to 10,000 which I’m challenged now which I will meet that,” said Susan Morris, Women of Impact, AHA.
This was a powerful and inspiring evening and showed why there should be 101 years to support the cause.
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