Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation

07/30/2025

Thank you Haven Magazine for this Amazing Article you did on me Honoring Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation !!!

Amy , you did an awesome job on my story and this touched my heart more than you know. Thank you for your support for CCF’s next event coming up next month at The BowenYard Benefit Hosted by The Lake House Kitchen where we are raising money to place an AED at The Bowen Yard to protect the safety of their tenants, staff and customers in case of a life-threatening emergency .
They also mentioned my Saving Lives Matters Benefit held on Nov 15th at Tanners Lakeside to raise money to place AEDs out in our community so mark your calendars and Save The Dates on both of these events and come out & show your support 🙌

Everyone don’t forget to pick up your magazine today . I should have some at my salon , Melanie's Cutting Edge , in a couple days if you’d like to stop in and pick one up.
You can find almost everything that is going on right here in WH in this magazine & You never know who might be in there ❤️

07/30/2025

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation had our CPR Certified Training Course tonight at Melanie's Cutting Edge !!!

Thank you Craig Marans for such a well informative class on CPR & AED Training. It was so nice to meet you and looking forward to more CPR training in supporting CCF as Saving Lives Matters 🙌❤️

07/29/2025

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation Donated # 70 AED to Youth for Christ of Polk County !!!!

07/29/2025

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation
will have our CPR class tonight ,Tuesday, July 29th ,   at 6pm at Melanie's Cutting Edge!!
Classes are $55 to get CPR Certification .
Text Melanie Brown Culpepper Beilke at (863) 662-26924 if you would like to come to the class to get certified or just show up at 6 and we will get you signed up. 🙌

Everyone should know CPR as someone’s life could depend on it, It could be your own family ,a loved one or even “YOU “ your saving as “Saving Lives Matters “..

❤️Reasons to know CPR …
1. CPR classes are interactive & hands on
2.CPR gives a cardiac arrest victom a better chance of full recovery
3. CPR saves lives and you can save the life of a loved one
4. It improves your self confidence
5.Most cardiac arrests occur in the home
6 . Hands -Only CPR is easy to learn
7. You don’t have to do mouth to mouth resuscitation
8.Saving Lives Matters

07/28/2025

Getting Ready for The Bowen Yard Benefit on August 23rd Hosted by The Lake House Kitchen with Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation!!!

We are Selling Tickets for a chance to win a Pew Pew from Wild Wild West Arms, Polk County Fl💥

For Tickets …👇
Text Melanie Brown Culpepper Beilkeat (863) 662-2694 or Melanie's Cutting Edge at (863)299-6537

Tickets are $20 or 6 for a $100 .
Drawing will be at the end of the event on August 23rd at The Bowen Yard hosted by Moses Vazquez & Dustin Lyle with The Lake House Kitchen to raise $ for an AED for The BowenYard to protect all their staff and costumers in case of a life threatening emergency 🙌❤️

07/28/2025

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation CPR Class is this Tuesday at 6pm

Reach out to Melanie Brown Culpepper Beilke at (863 )662- 2694 to sign up !!!

We will have our CPR class Tuesday, July 29  at 6pm at Melanie's Cutting Edge !!
Classes are $55 to get CPR Certification .

Half of the proceeds from every person will go to CCF as “Saving Lives Matters”….

❤️Reasons to know CPR …
1. CPR classes are interactive & hands on
2.CPR gives a cardiac arrest victom a better chance of full recovery
3. CPR saves lives and you can save the life of a loved one
4. It improves your self confidence
5.Most cardiac arrests occur in the home
6 . Hands -Only CPR is easy to learn
7. You don’t have to do mouth to mouth resuscitation
8.Saving Lives Matters

You never know when you can Save A Life as every Breath & Minutes Count ❤️

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation raises $ to place AED’s in our community and support our local fire, Emt and PCSO. Please help support us as you never know when we can save a life , rather a stranger, friend, family or your own life your saving ❤️

07/26/2025

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07/25/2025

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation donanted #70 AED last evening to The Youth for Christ of Polk County !!’

Mr Eric Holmes, the Executive Director of Youth For Christ of Polk County , reached out to CCF inquiring about getting an AED for their foundation . This organization has been together for 30 years . Their youth are in the building as well as volunteers getting prepared for camps as well as Thanksgiving , preparing food baskets for over 150 youth & their families and Christmas Gifts fir kids. They work with “at risk youth “ in our community and in the summer they have week long wilderness camps for the youth. He often wondered what would happen if any of the youth or the leaders happened to have a cardiac emergency what would they do .

Eric, a former 1st Responder & current Lead Chaplin for the Polk County Sheriff's Office was thankful for what CCF does in helping provide AEDs throughout our community.
Eric the honor to be able to meet all of you & place an AED at your organization. This whole program really touched my heart and so glad that we were able to be a part of learning more about your foundation as well as being able to provide this life saving device to your program , if ever needed in case of an emergency.

Eric and several of the staff were there last evening as I told my story of why I started the foundation and we gave a demonstration on the importance of having an AED .
Eric Shimkus , who has been a Paramedic for over 23 years and who does this all as volunteer , gave the demonstration on the AED and Cpr . We also incorporated a Choking Device and Narcan to carry in case of an overdose .
All of these I added to our demonstration in hope to share the importance of Saving Lives .
We also brought the importance of a Fire Extinguisher to your vehicles as I wanted to add this to our CCF Demonstration ,in honor of Jolynn. She was a lil girl we loved and lost due to a car fire back in Nov and we want to continue our love for her and her mom , Logan Deines 🙌❤️

The CCF Team were able to place an AED here in hope to help Save A Life 🙌
Thank you everyone and our Community so very much as without our community support we could not make this all happen .
In honor of Michael Culpepper, my late fiancé , who passed away from heart failure in July of 2020. I started the Foundation to help in my healing process as I wanted to try to help save others as I couldn’t save him . We raise money by sponsorships, donations, and having events. We place AEDs s well as we give out three scholarships a year. One is for Fire , one for Medical and one for EMT as we support all of our First Responders. if we save one person’s life, all of this is worth it.

CCF Mission Statement…
In Honor of Culpepper! With community support we hope to place a defibrillator on every city block. We may be the closest First Responder.

A Shout out to Eric Shimkus from The Winter Haven Fire Department ,who does this all as volunteer , in doing the demonstration .
Thank you to my husband , Brian Beilke, for being by my side through it all and behind scenes, and Daily Ridge , for all standing behind me as we are the CCF Team !!!

Thank you Rescue 7 Inc. , CoroMed & AED.US for partnering up with Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation and to all of our sponsors , ones who donates, & all supporters as you all help make this possible.

We all may be The Closest 1st Responder. It could be your friend your own family or even “YOU “ , you’re saving as “SAVING LIVES MATTERS “.

Look up CCF Map Locations …
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07/24/2025

Mark your calendar for August 23rd for The Bowen Yard Benefit Hosted by The Lake House Kitchen “Raising $ For AEDs “ with Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation!!!

This will be an all day event from 12-6 Hosted by Moses & Dustin Lyle with The Lake House Kitchen to raise $ to place an AED at The Bowen Yard to protect the safety of their staff & patrons in case of an emergency if ever needed.

We will have Live Entertainment with The Got UR 6 Band kicking off at 2 & The One & Only Joey Foley as our Mc.We will have Raffles , a Bounce house for the kids , 50-50, Live Auction , Chest of Cheer , a G*N Raffle and Food Specials all Day with a percentage going toward the AED to help show their support .

Most importantly everything raised will go to place an AED at The Bowen Yard and if enough is raised , they will “Pay It Forward” for other locations in our community In hope to save a life if ever needed as “Saving Lives Matters”.

CCF will still have our Yearly event “SAVING LIVES MATTERS” on Nov 15th at Tanners Lakeside!

If anyone would like to donate a raffle item , auction item or make a donation , message Melanie Brown Culpepper Beilke at (863)662-2694 .

07/24/2025

What a great time we had tonight at “Bingo For A Cause “ at Tanners Lakeside!!!

We had this special lady come for the first time to bingo tonight & what a lucky night she had as our Bingo Winner  🙌🙌🙌

We appreciate everyone for participating each week as we just raised enough $ for our 4th AED and now closer to our 5th for “Bingo For A Cause” for Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation…

We want to Thank everyone of you for coming out each week as you all make a difference to help continue placing AEDs out in our community in hope to save a life if ever needed🙌

Come out every Wed at 530 and at 730 you can Buy-in 10/cards, max 2 per person. 50% of proceeds go to the CCF and the other half to the winner.
Play, win, and support a great cause!

07/23/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Larry Day, John Hill, Joe Gillooley, Patricia Cox, Susan Dennis, Brad Jenckes

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

07/23/2025

It’s BINGO TIME !!!!

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation “Bingo For A Cause “ is tonight at Tanners Lakeside!!!

Thank you everyone for coming out each week as you all make a difference to help continue placing AEDs out in our community’s. CCF has placed a total of 69 AED’s so far and five of them came from Bingo For A Cause .

Come our every Wed at 530 and at 730 you can Buy-in $10/cards, max 2 per person. 50% of proceeds go to the Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation where we place AED’s in our community as “Saving Lives Matters”.

Play, win, and support a great cause! 🙌