A pillar of the Michigan folk music and vintage jazz community, Ray Kamalay had a very close call in late July. (People Places & Miscellany).(Brief Article)

A pillar of the Michigan folk music and vintage jazz community, Ray Kamalay had a very close call in late July. With a history of heart disease in his family, Ray has done everything he could to avoid it--running miles everyday, eating right. Because it was so hot, his wife persuaded him to go to the Y to work out, instead of his usual woods run ... and there his heart stopped.

But as fate would have it, the YMCA director had just two months prior bought a portable defibrillator for emergency use, and that device restarted Ray's …