Relay For Life Slates

April 12 Meeting

An organizing meeting will be held on Monday, April 12 at the Newtown Middle School cafeteria for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life that is planned for next June 12 at the Newtown High School.

Note the change in time; any team captains who need to register their team or add to their registrations will meet at 6 pm. Committee members will meet at 6:30 pm.

Anyone who would like to volunteer to help plan the event or to form a team is welcome to attend.

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life is an overnight community celebration during which individuals and teams camp out, dance, play games and take turns walking around a track relay style to raise funds to fight cancer. At nightfall, participants will light hundreds of luminarias (candle lanterns) in a heartwarming ceremony to honor cancer survivors as well as friends and family members lots to the disease.

The Luminiaria Committee is looking for pictures of cancer survivors as well as those who have lost their fight to cancer for the luminaria ceremony, which will be held at 9 pm on the night of the relay. Please bring any pictures to the April 12 meeting or contact Alice Mascher at 364-1957. All photos will be returned.

Anyone who has any questions can contact Dawn Escoda 270-7541 or Ivette Gerics 426-3589.

The American Cancer Society is a nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy and service. For more information about the American Cancer Society, call 800-ACS-2345, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or visit www.cancer.org.