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KTKC: How Are Your Donations Used?
Throughout our first three years of Kilted to Kick Cancer, we acted as a proxy to raise research dollars for Prostate Cancer Foundation and LiveStrong. And we did well at that, raising over $60,000 in...
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Inside EMS Podcast: Performance Metrics and Death With Dignity
On this episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the story out of Charlotte, NC of MEDIC paramedics complaining that a new points system rewarding shorter time-on-task will...
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To Protect and Serve
Saturday, August 29th at noon, LSP Senior Trooper Steven Vincent will be laid to rest. Funeral services will be at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Lake Charles. Steven was murdered by a...
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Kilted to Kick Cancer 2015 Fundraising Challenge is Almost Here!
In less than 36 hours, we’ll be kicking off our 2015 Fundraising Challenge! In just 90 days of active fundraising from 2011-2014, we’ve raised over $60k for cancer research, and your dollars last year...
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Kilted to Kick Cancer 2015: Let’s Get It On!
Today kicks off the 2015 Kilted to Kick Cancer 2015 Fundraising Challenge. Twenty five teams. Four awesome prize packages. One common enemy. I’m asking you, my EMS and gun nut friends, my loyal...
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Inside EMS Podcast: Spree Shooters and Employers Behaving Badly
In this week’s issue of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the on-air murder of the WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman adam ward last week, and the decision by Beaufort, SC...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Virginia Arms Company
When we first started the Kilted to Kick Cancer Fundraising Challenge back in 2011, Virginia Arms Co. of Manassas, VA was one of the first companies to take a chance on a fledgling cancer charity,...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Brownells
When I first went begging, hat in hand, for prizes for our first fundraising challenge, people told me, “You need to call Larry Weeks of Brownells. Great company, and one of the nicest guys in the gun...
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Inside EMS Podcast: The Five Food Evils
In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, Fit Responder President and EMS1 columnist Bryan Fass tells us about the five food evils. They’re five common foods that provide little nutritional value and...
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I Just Gave These People $49. Here’s Why You Should, Too
I just joined the Association of Texas EMS Professionals. The yearly dues are $49. I don’t live in Texas. I don’t work in Texas. But I am licensed in Texas, and if I am going to walk the walk in...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Lonely Mountain Arms
Today’s spotlight donor is my friend and fellow Kilted fundraiser Ross Schacher. For Ross, the fight against cancer is a personal one. It has touched people close to him, and for that reason he is...
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What, Fourth Place? That Just Won’t Do!
Six days into the KTKC 2015 Fundraising Challenge, and I’m already in a distant fourth place with only $220 raised. Team HBC Concealment is kicking all our butts, but even newbie Team Dragon is...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Dreadnaught Industries
Alex Wakal of Dreadnaught Industries in Von Ormy, TX, has been supporting KTKC for several years now. In 2013, Alex kicked in an AR15 lower as a pot sweetener for people donating on behalf of my...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Columbia River Knife and Tool
New to the KTKC donor team this year is Columbia River Knife and Tool, known to the vast majority of outdoors types as CRKT. Hey, we’re feel a sense of solidarity for organizations with long names...
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KTKC 2015 Fundraising Challenge: Week One Standings
We’re one week into the 2015 KTKC Fundraising Challenge, and as of 1400 Central time on Spetmeber 8, we’ve raised $5,037. That puts us about a quarter of the way to our fundraising goal, with three...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Buck Knives
If you’re of a certain generation, you probably carried a Buck knife in your pocket. It was likely given to you by your father or grandfather, already well-worn but still razor sharp. Solid,...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Richardson Reloading
Today’s donor spotlight is Cody Richardson of Richardson Reloading in southern Illinois. Richardson Reloading is a licensed and insured Type 06 manufacturer of ammunition, specializing in highly...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Blauer Apparel
New to the KTKC donor list this year is Blauer public safety apparel. Each of the prize packages this year contains a pair of Blauer 6″ Clash LT boots. I’ve owned both the Clash and Blitz duty boots,...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Dragon Leatherworks
We’ve got a new Kilted fundraiser this year, one Dennis Badurina of Dragon Leatherworks. Aside from being one of the best custom holster makers out there, Dennis is also holster maker to the stars,...
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KTKC Donor Spotlight: Gobha Iron and Wood Works
Today’s donor spotlight is kilted blacksmith Kyle Leslie of Gobha Iron and Wood Works. Kyle has been gracious enough to donate a set of hand-forged iron candlesticks. Each set has been forged in a...
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