Weekly Speaker: Ernie Withers & Martin Grammatica

Name: Weekly Speaker: Ernie Withers & Martin Grammatica
Start: 2024-11-05T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-05T13:15:00-05:00
Location: 502 3rd Avenue West, Bradenton, FL, United States, Florida 34205

Schedule

Tue Nov 05 2024 at 12:00 pm to 01:15 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

502 3rd Avenue West, Bradenton, FL, United States, Florida 34205 | Bradenton, FL

Join us for our weekly meeting where we'll hear from Ernie Withers & Martin Grammatica.
Ernie Withers was the GM of Mercedez Benz in Sarasota for many years and currently lives in Manatee County. At one time he was also chairman of the board for Manatee County Chamber of Commerce. During a recent game at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Mr. Withers collapsed and went into sudden cardiac arrest and the park’s rapid response team saved his life through the use of an AED.
As a result, he started a foundation to help donate AEDs as well as CPR training/certification for nonprofit organizations.
A longtime Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan, he formed a friendship with former Bucs kicker Martin Grammatica, who offered the Withers’ free full-body scans as part of a promotional spot for his company, Life Guard Imaging.
The scans revealed that Cindy Lou had a cancerous tumor in her right kidney. By catching her Stage 2 kidney cancer – known as the “silent killer” because of its difficult detection – she was able to have her kidney removed in May 2023 and is cancer-free.
“The doctor said if I didn’t have my sudden heart attack and we didn’t’ have those body scane, it wouldn’t have ben detected, and we would have never found out,” Withers told TribLive this past February. “It would have been too late.”
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