Relay for Life meeting Tuesday at HMB Firehouse

Relay for Life meeting, Tuesday at HMB Firehouse

There will be a meeting Tuesday  June 10 at 6:30PM at the Half Moon Bay Firehouse for everyone interested in participating in the Coastside’s first Relay for Life, to be held at Cunha Middle School on August 2&3 2008. Russ Bissonette of the American Legion and Clayton Jolley of the Coastside Fire Department are co-chairs for the event.

Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature event to raise awareness and funding to fight cancer. A victory lap recognizes local cancer survivors and a luminaria ceremony honors and remembers those who have faced cancer.

• Honor cancer survivors
• Join a team
• Receive your Team Captain kit
• Join the Relay For Life Committee
• Remember loved ones
• Become a Corporate Sponsor
• Get energized for the Relay Season

To register, form a team, donate money, purchase a luminaria or sign up as a survivor, contact: Emily LeDeau 650.773.9122 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. It offers everyone in a community an opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Relays are an overnight event, up to 24 hours in length.

Each of the more than 4,800 Relays nationwide is a fun-filled, overnight event that mobilizes communities to celebrate survivors (anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer), remember loved ones and raise money for the fight against cancer. Teams of eight to 15 members gather with tents and sleeping bags with the goal of keeping on person on the track at all times. Relay For Life brings together friends, families, businesses, hospitals, schools, churches … people from all walks of life. Teams seek sponsorship prior to the Relay, all with the goal of eliminating cancer.

Teams of people from all walks of life have fun while raising much-needed funds to fight cancer and raise awareness of cancer prevention and treatment.

The theme for this year’s event is “Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back”. The event includes a Celebration of Cancer Survivors including a Survivor lap, a Luminaria Ceremony remembering the lives of those who have lost their battle with cancer, and a fight back send off at the end of the event to energize people top fight back against Cancer.