The life of this party is a CPR dummy named Annie
By ANNA PRATT, Special to the Star Tribune
Combine the socializing of a Tupperware party with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and you've got a "save-a-life" party.
Such an event took place recently at Shore- view's Midland Terrace Apartments, where about 20 party-goers knelt in a circle on the floor, ready to practice life-saving techniques on their "Annies" -- inflatable training dummies.
The "save-a-life party" coincided with National Night Out -- the national neighborhood crime-fighting initiative -- earlier this month. Save-a-life parties are designed to teach people to react quickly in emergencies, and, in particular, how to use CPR, said training leader Ron Evens, a representative from the Spring Lake Park-Blaine-Mounds View fire department's volunteer fire corps.