Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. Relay for Life this Saturday

by Angie Asam, Staff Writer

The 12th Annual Presque Isle County Relay for Life will kick off this Saturday in beginning at 10 a.m. The 24-hour event will be held in the east parking lot of the Rogers City High School. Dave Nadolsky will welcome the crowd with the opening and fight back ceremonies beginning with Nicole Grulke forward to sing the ?Star Spangled Banner? while Veterans of Foreign War (VFW) Post 607 members Dave Kaski (Navy), Dave Vekaryasz (Army), Albert Schaudt (Marine Corps) and Duane Dembny (Army) will display the American Flag. Each team will then be introduced before the first lap begins. Each lap beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday will have a theme. This year each lap has been designated a month of the year and the holiday or special celebrations that take place in that month. January will be coupled with New Years and will take place from 11 a.m. until noon. For a complete schedule of lap themes see the ad on page ??? or visit http://relay.acsevents.org/site/DocServer/Schedule_of_Events.pdf?docID=150723.

At 11 a.m. the Silent Singers will do a performance using sign language along with a song. The Amazing Survivor Race for fourth through sixth-graders will take place beginning at noon Saturday. Many other musical numbers and entertainment will go on throughout the 24-hour event, again to see a list see the schedule of events. Along with themed laps and entertainment food booths will be available, a Chinese auction will be held along with kids games and many other activities. Beginning at 3 p.m. and running until sold out will be the Sportsman?s club chicken dinners.

The survivors? victory lap and caregiver lap along with the recognition of the cancer survivors will take place at 7 p.m. Registration for survivors will be at 5:30 p.m. The luminaria ceremony will begin at 9 p.m. when the candles are lit and survivor guest speaker Myron Karsten will address the crowd before the names of cancer survivors and those who have lost the battle to cancer are read. A special memorial lap will follow at 10:30 p.m. Luminaria may be purchased for $10 from team members or at the event. Also following the luminaria ceremony will be a pizza party provided by local pizza places, each pizza will be $8 and all proceeds will go to Relay for Life.

Lap activities continue on Sunday morning. At 8 a.m. Sunday morning the Chinese auction winners will be announced and closing ceremonies comp

lete with team awards, announcements and wrap-up will begin at 9 a.m. Sunday. A few Relay rules are no pets, no in-line skates (rollerblades), scooters, skateboards or bikes, no alcohol or tobacco products and no foul language. Please join the community in celebrating, remembering and fighting back against cancer. The purpose of Relay for Life is to raise money to fund the American Cancer Society in finding a cure for the deadly disease. Relay began in 1985 when Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon in Tacoma, Washington ran and walked around a track for 24 hours to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Since then relay has grown from one man?s passion to fight cancer into the world?s largest movement to end the disease. Each year more than 3.5 million people from 5,000 communities in the United States as well as communities in 20 other countries participate in Relay for Life events.

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