Elvis show to support paramedics' charity work
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 8 years, 2 months AGO
Courtesy photo Scot Bruce performing as Elvis.
Scot Bruce, an internationally known Elvis impersonator, will perform a concert Saturday, June 16, in Coeur d’Alene to benefit an effort by local paramedics and a pair of emergency physicians to build a medical clinic in Bolivia.
Bruce will perform at 2 p.m. in McEuen Park, during Car d’Lane.
Tickets are $20.
The tribute concert will benefit a partnership between local paramedics and emergency physicians and Mano a Mano Bolivia, a development group that has built 162 clinics in rural Bolivia.
“The rural villages are very poor in Bolivia,” said Gordy Luther, an emergency physician at Kootenai Health. He is also the Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services System (KCEMSS) medical director. “Mano a Mano has done fantastic, sustainable work building clinics. We’re excited to partner with them.”
Luther traveled to Bolivia in March, along with paramedics from Kootenai County EMS and a second physician, to teach a prehospital trauma course,
After working with the first responder community, Luther was determined to return and do even more to help.
The Elvis impersonator show will be the first fundraiser to support the effort.