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By BOB SCOTT
Rappahannock Newi Contributing Writer
“It it’s working, don’t fix it!” We’ve all heard that cliche. It makes sense if we’re talking about an alarm clock. But if we’re thinking about a human heart, it’s how well it’s working that is so vital. If it isn’t working we’re in a fix.
The mission of the American Heart Association is to keep our hearts working well. Not only our hearts but the entire circulatory system that keeps everything in our bodies alive and healthy, from our brains to our toes and everything in between.
We’re seldom aware of this miraculous system when everything is working as it was originally designed to work. The big idea is to keep it working so it won’t need fixing.
The Rappahannock County Unit of the American Heart Association (AHA) held its first board meeting of the 1991-92 campaign at Trinity Church in Washington at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 11.
President Paul Nichols received activity reports from the program leaders and Jane Lienesch, the Blue Ridge Area Director reviewed the AHA mission and defined specific goals for the current campaign.
Initially, the board members were encouraged to increase community awareness of the unique contribution that AHA has made to the heart health of Americans everywhere.
AHA’s mission in brief is “to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.” Cardiovascular disease, or CVD as it
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