EVERETT — Frontier Communications and the Red Cross announced a new partnership March 10 that should get more people trained to save lives and will support other programs.
The company donated $15,000 to the Snohomish County chapter of the Red Cross in announcing a partnership with the agency in Washington and Oregon states.
Jon Fleischmann, the company’s vice president of operations in the West, said that in addition to Thursday’s check, the company will try to raise $45,000 for Red Cross groups in the two states through a program that will contribute $85 as people sign up for its high speed Internet service, digital phone service and computer support service.
The money will go toward training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of automated defibrillators, disaster relief, blood donations and communication services for people in the military.
Fleischmann said some 600 Frontier employees in the county will receive CPR training as part of the effort.
Chuck Morrison, the county’s Red Cross director, said the agency offered 800 classes to 11,000 people last year in the county.
“That’s not enough,” he said.
He said corporate partnerships “are critical” for his agency, especially now.
Jes Wyse, who’s husband serves on the USS Abraham Lincoln at Naval Station Everett, talked about one Red Cross service called “flat daddies” that provides large cutouts of service members for their families while there off on a mission.
She said the flat daddy of her husband is well used by their four-and-a-half-year-old-son, “who carts him around everywhere.”
“They play cars,” she said, adding, “On Thanksgiving and Christmas, he went to dinner with us.”
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