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The Relay For Life is an overnight community team event to fight cancer. It increases awareness of cancer in the community, and raises money to support cancer research. A team captain gets together some of his or her closest friends, coworkers, family members, club, fraternity, sorority, or dorm and forms a team. The team members go out and collect contributions prior to the event. Relay For Life is a celebration at the end of the fundraising. Come Relay Day, participants grab their tents and lawn chairs and head to the Relay For Life. It’s a community camp-out. People pitch their tents on the football field, and team members take turns walking or running around the track. One person from each team must be on the track at all times. The first lap at the Relay For Life is special. It’s the Survivor’s Lap. Cancer Survivors are invited to come and walk the first lap. It’s very emotional, and hopeful, to see so many people who survive cancer.
In the evening there is a Luminaria Ceremony. Hundreds of candles are placed around the track. Each one is dedicated in honor of a cancer survivor, or in memory of someone who had passed away from cancer. Luminarias encircle the track and light the way as Relay For Life participants walk through the night.
Click here for a slide show of the Relay For Life 2002.
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