Another Successful Relay Season
Haven't written much about our Duluth Relay this summer. Here are some excerpts from a newsletter our Community Coordinator has sent to all participants.
2006-2007 Duluth Community Relay For Life Successes
--Rain... what rain? Cancer survivors streamed out to the Survivor's Lap doning umbrellas and HUGE grins.
--The first Survivorship Reunion was held successfully. This was also the first partnership between a community event and a chapter of the Colleges Against Cancer in the Twin Ports area. (Duluth Community and CSS chapter of the Colleges Against Cancer).
--This season possessed a strong local volunteer presence at the Day at the Capital and tons of local involvement in the email and writing campaigns that led to MN becoming SMOKE FREE.
--This year was also marked by an increase in caregiver recognition and support.
--This year's Relay season recognized the courageous cancer journey of a grandmother and her grandson, Barbara and Austin Beier, the successful treatment of a strong willed little Julia Dahl, the lost battle of a breathtakingly beautiful young lady Agne Kelly. It also possessed luminaria that recognized the cancer journeys of thousands more.
--This year marked new business involvement and a deeper commitment from current businesses both in team support and sponsorship.
--This year also possessed one of the most beautiful survivorship tents I have seen at any Relay.
--The Duluth Community Relay For Life possessed a night that really reflected the unity of the teams through a theme that "built" the bonds between both the teams and the survivors.
Look at this photo... I think it shows the greatest accomplishment of all... SURVIVORSHIP... Survivors... coming together, walking alongside one another and sharing their personal battles with cancer as one united front. Know that the years we exceed our financial goals we will celebrate and the years we come short we will celebrate because Relay is much, much more...
Relay is about raising monies to provide research grants, educational programming and patient services...ACCOMPLISHED!
Relay is about connecting with community survivors, their caregivers and families providing them with cancer information, hugs and HOPE...ACCOMPLISHED!
Relay is about connecting with local residents and our community YOUTH and sharing all that they can do to reduce their cancer risks, find cancer early and get support...ACCOMPLISHED!
Relay is about recognizing all of those who have won their battle to cancer, and those who we've lost to the disease...ACCOMPLISHED.Relay is about bringing one person together with another and another and another and another to create a united front to combat cancer...ACCOMPLISHED.
--Rain... what rain? Cancer survivors streamed out to the Survivor's Lap doning umbrellas and HUGE grins.
--The first Survivorship Reunion was held successfully. This was also the first partnership between a community event and a chapter of the Colleges Against Cancer in the Twin Ports area. (Duluth Community and CSS chapter of the Colleges Against Cancer).
--This season possessed a strong local volunteer presence at the Day at the Capital and tons of local involvement in the email and writing campaigns that led to MN becoming SMOKE FREE.
--This year was also marked by an increase in caregiver recognition and support.
--This year's Relay season recognized the courageous cancer journey of a grandmother and her grandson, Barbara and Austin Beier, the successful treatment of a strong willed little Julia Dahl, the lost battle of a breathtakingly beautiful young lady Agne Kelly. It also possessed luminaria that recognized the cancer journeys of thousands more.
--This year marked new business involvement and a deeper commitment from current businesses both in team support and sponsorship.
--This year also possessed one of the most beautiful survivorship tents I have seen at any Relay.
--The Duluth Community Relay For Life possessed a night that really reflected the unity of the teams through a theme that "built" the bonds between both the teams and the survivors.
Look at this photo... I think it shows the greatest accomplishment of all... SURVIVORSHIP... Survivors... coming together, walking alongside one another and sharing their personal battles with cancer as one united front. Know that the years we exceed our financial goals we will celebrate and the years we come short we will celebrate because Relay is much, much more...
Relay is about raising monies to provide research grants, educational programming and patient services...ACCOMPLISHED!
Relay is about connecting with community survivors, their caregivers and families providing them with cancer information, hugs and HOPE...ACCOMPLISHED!
Relay is about connecting with local residents and our community YOUTH and sharing all that they can do to reduce their cancer risks, find cancer early and get support...ACCOMPLISHED!
Relay is about recognizing all of those who have won their battle to cancer, and those who we've lost to the disease...ACCOMPLISHED.Relay is about bringing one person together with another and another and another and another to create a united front to combat cancer...ACCOMPLISHED.
PS - My Relay Team "Hope UMC" raised almost $5,000! Thank you to all who helped us!
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