My photo montage of Relay For Life

Denis Baldwin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:53:00 +0000

I went to Relay for Life this weekend, the American Cancer Society’s organized event to educate, promote awareness and accept donations for cancer research. 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.

This is an event Kara’s work has been involved in during previous years at Bartow High School, so I decided to join Kara for the walk and to use this as an opportunity to take pictures.

Ashland’s Grill Team keeps the dogs and burgers going, refueling hungry relay walkers.

Nothing says “walking for life” like the booze tent.

The theme was “Western”, so there was a lot of cowboy decorations about.

Cancer Can’t Tucker Us Out donated $30,000 to research. That’s awesome.

There were games and fun for the whole family.

Lots of cool prizes to raffle off too. If there wasn’t a 1200:1 chance of winning this TV, I would have bought a $10 ticket.

The local elementary had these cool cowboy cutouts that people were posing with between laps.

Gambling for a good cause.

This chopper is another one of those “man, I wish I could win this prize” prizes. Too bad the tickets were more than I could afford.

I wish I could have gotten a photo of this without the flash and had it turn out right. All along the course there were these candle and sand filled bags that lit up the track. It was neat.

This poor kid. People kept asking him about his “Corn Hole Tournament”.

Everyone kind of moved at their own pace..

They spelled out “CURE” in those same glowing bags. Once again, I wish I could get a photo of them glowing, as this was a cool effect.

The relay was a great success. Preliminary numbers found that donations were very high, even in a bad economy. It’s good to see so many people there, sharing stories and making a difference.

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My photo montage of Relay For Life