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Hurley freshmen learn to save lives

By TOM LAVENTURE

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HURLEY - The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction requires CPR training but the Hurley K-12 School also benefits from a teacher who brings years of practical experience to the role.

The CPR training is a unit of the freshman health class that is taught by Aaron Bender, a social studies teacher at Hurley School who took over the health class and teaches compression only CPR with defibrillator training about four years ago. He brings 15 years of experience as a volunteer first responder with the Saxon-Gurney First Responders.

"It's a real-w...