Tony Ayala

And then I said, you know what, let me talk to my art team and see what makes the most sense.

Maybe there's an opportunity here for us to, to pay for half or I don't know, we can maybe just donate one outright.

We have the money to do that, but let's see, like we'll see.

And of course, during the conversation and during the process of leading up to like expanding and telling more of these stories, I started realizing, he's like, you know what,

If we're trying to push a state law that covers two-thirds the cost of an AED in a state-licensed child care facility, how about we just do that?

We'll do that with this one school outside of La Crosse and say, hey, we'll cover two-thirds, you cover one-third.

And once you do that, then you'll understand how this state law program could potentially work.

And it did.

They have an AED now.

They came to a presentation press event where we released

Seven of our AEDs were given out to state licensed child care centers.

Again, you start asking people to show up because you're leading a press event and you've never led a press event before.

It's really kind of neat.

They showed up with cameras.

We had attendees from the La Crosse Fire Department, from the La Crosse Community Foundation, from our partners, and

With every opportunity to show what's going on to the public, you start educating people and the ball and the momentum continues.

So this one particular story about this North Crawford early education program getting an AED for two-thirds of the cost in the same style as the Bubba's Law will do on the state level is pretty cool.

And I think that that's exactly the type of story we need to keep going.

creating and being a part of because these stories, they give validity, they give the foundation for what we're doing next.

Yeah.