Have you lost a loved one to Cancer? Are you or someone you know a Survivor? If so we would like to see your support at this year’s Relay For Life of Gloucester. On May 19, through May 20, 2012 at Gloucester High School on the football field. WE ARE WAGING A WAR ON CANCER

We are so excited to present to you a tease of the 2012 Agenda for Relay For Life:

List of Events:

SURVIVOR DINNER: A Survivor of Cancer and one Care taker will be invited to this dinner. If you are not registered, please do so online or at the event. Survivor Dinner will start at 5:30 on May 19th. This Dinner is Fully Sponsored by Chick Fil A of Gloucester.

OPENING CEREMONY: Survivors will take the first lap to start the event. The unveiling of next year’s theme and a BIG SURPRISE. Cannot wait, we are so excited.

LUMINARIA CEREMONY: The most moving event, once you have seen it, you will never forget it. For those we have lost and those who have survived. All lights are turned out and all Candles are lite in luminary bags that surround the entire football field. It’s our community’s opportunity to remember loved ones touched by cancer. The Relay for Life Luminara Ceremony allows us to all come together as a community and remember good times, tears, laughter, and cherished moments. It’s a time for us to grieve for those we’ve lost and reflect on how the disease has touched each of us personally taking a look inside ourselves with quiet reflection to find HOPE

Whether our loved one is still with us or has passed our remember ceremony signifies the HOPE that we provide by Relaying, HOPE that we will one day live in a world where our children, and their children, will never know the suffering of cancer or endure the staggering feelings of sadness and loss cancer brings.
If you are interested in a Luminary Bag with your loved ones or your name on it, please contact me. You can decorate your own bag or our Committee will do it for you. We have, In Memory of, In Support of and In Honor of Tags for each bag and they are really beautiful around the track. The amount of donation for a Luminary is $10.00.

THE MECHINAL BULL and JOUSTING:  These events are being relpaced with additional events.  We were unable to get insured for the event.

SPECIAL THANKS:

KEVIN HORNSBY: Has agreed to be our MC again this year. Kevin will entertain us all night and we will get to hear more of his music and his passion for the fight. We are so excited to have Kevin assist in planning the event, through his knowledge and expertise this will be an event you will not easily forget. Kevin has some surprises of his own this year! Thank You Kevin Hornsby!

DAVID WAYNE AND UNION RIDGE: We are proud to Welcome David Wayne and Union Ridge to join us in the fight. No better way to Celebrate, Remember and Fight Back than through music and with such a wonderful band. They will please the crowd, that is for sure.

Gloucester Army Recruiting Station: SFC Taveras, Station Commander US Army Recruiting Station in Gloucester is also joining us in the fight. Thank you for your Service to this Country and thank you for providing the very freedom which makes this country such a wonderful place to live and Welcome to Relay for Life of Gloucester County. Soldiers wear a wide assortment of insignia, ribbons, medals, badges, tabs and patches. To the uninitiated, the variety can be bewildering. Yet, each device represents a Soldier's accomplishment-or that of his or her unit- and is a great source of pride and accomplishment. As soldiers at time of war, cancer is to a war, a battle won or defeated. Again, thank you for joining us in this war against cancer, where you now stand on the front line once again. Army Strong.

Events and games and contest all throughout the night, and prize patrol this year, every hour on the hour stating at 10:00 p.m. Now how about Zumba at 4:00 am, you think that might wake you up. You know it will, thank you Curves for all your support to help make this event successful.

Full event news and schedule to be posted upon finalization. As I said this is just a tease!

WHAT IS RELAY FOR LIFE YOU MIGHT ASK?
Relay for Life will reach the milestone of 28 years of Community presence and action against the fight against cancer. Since 1985, Relay for Life has grown from one man Dr. Gordy Klatt, who walked, jogged and ran a track for 24 hours raising money for his local American Cancer Society Unit - -to a movement to eliminate cancer that now takes place in 5,000 communities in the United States and in 19 other Countries around the world. Just think of this, since Dr. Klatt’s Relay was designated as the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraising event, 90 more lives are saved per day from cancer. This is no doubt thanks to the Community presence that Relay for Life provides the American Cancer Society. The face of cancer and the ability to fight it is bought to our Community and thousands more every year, educating citizens on how the American Cancer Society can help. All thanks to you and millions like you.

More than 3.5 million participate in the life-changing event. Relay is a worldwide movement to eliminate cancer, to reinforce “CELEBRATE”, REMEMBER, FIGHT BACK to show how the involvement of relayers has helped the American Cancer Society make progress in research, education, advocacy, and patient services. 28 years of HOPE. HOPE that anyone facing cancer can find the care and support they need. HOPE of a cancer free tomorrow. Cancer survivors signify HOPE. They are living proof that we are making a difference in the fight against cancer. Hope that during the Dark Nights of Cancer that the sun will shine again.


WHY DO WE RELAY ALL NIGHT?

We will walk all night, because cancer never sleeps. The money we raise will support the American Cancer Society's programs of cancer research, education and direct services to cancer patients and their families. This relay is not a competition, except against cancer.
I'd like to welcome all of you to the Relay for Life of Gloucester.

ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT BACK GLOUCESTER COUNTY?
28 years ago a man had a vision. His vision was a world free from this very pain and suffering we speak of. Little did this man know that the track he ran in darkness would soon transform to a field of brilliant luminara, each one representing a name, a face, a smile,, and a treasured memory. And as each year passed, more people took to the track and the flickering light beckoned this man and those who joined his journey to go on and in time that one man’s vision became a reality.

Just as the community of Tacoma Washington decided to fight cancer together. Relay For life is about our Community of Gloucester County taking up the fight. At relay for life participants commit to save a life. Maybe it’s their own; maybe the life of a family member, friend, coworker; or the life of someone they don’t even know. However they choose to do it, whoever it is that their actions help save, just think of the extraordinary feeling to know that you…helped save a life. Is there anything more powerful than that? Is there anything more powerful than looking back at an effort made by you and your community that leads to funds for research to treat this disease? Funds that provided transportation for a cancer patient to their life saving treatment. American Cancer Society needs our help to save lives.