County officials take part in CPR training

BENTON -- Scott County employees and elected officials can learn or brush up on life-saving skills at an unbeatable price, thanks to a former county employee.

County commissioners Donnie Kiefer and Dennis Ziegenhorn excused themselves for a couple of hours from their regular weekly County Commission meeting Tuesday to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation training.

The course instructor, Amber Scudder, started offering the classes when she was the county's emergency management director before resigning in August 2011 to spend more time with her family.

Scudder has continued to offer the free CPR classes to county officials and employees, however.

"It's good to know," Jamie Burger, presiding county commissioner, said of CPR. Burger said Scudder offered a total of five CPR training sessions Tuesday and Wednesday.

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