The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is seeking volunteers in Lowndes County — walkers, cancer survivors, caregivers, and community leaders — to lend a hand to ensure the success of the 2015 event.
The first volunteer meeting will be held on Monday, Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle Outpatient Pavilion room 1. The meeting will begin the planning process for the community’s spring Relay For Life event, which supports the American Cancer Society’s mission of saving lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by finding cures and by fighting back against the disease.
Relay for Life events are held overnight as individuals and teams camp out at an athletic track, park or other gathering area, with the goal of keeping at least one team member on the track or pathway at all times throughout the evening. Teams do most of their fundraising prior to the event, but some teams also hold creative fundraisers at their camp sites during Relay. Relay brings together friends, families, businesses, hospitals, schools and faith-based groups from all walks of life, all aimed at celebrating the lives of those who have had cancer, remembering those lost, and fighting back against the disease.
“Relay For Life is all about our community uniting with the American Cancer Society and supporting its efforts to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays,” said Tina Perry, Lowndes County event co-chair. “Volunteers and participants who are willing to give their time and energy to this exciting event are making a commitment to let Lowndes County know that cancer can be defeated.”
If you would like to join the Relay for Life in Lowndes County as a volunteer or team participant, contact Perry at 662-497-4084, or Mott Ellis at 662-574-1104 or visit relayforlife.org/lowndesms.
The American Cancer Society combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to save lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force of more than three million volunteers, it fights for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. ACS save lives by helping people stay well, by preventing cancer or detecting it early, by helping people get well by being there for them during and after a cancer diagnosis, by finding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery, by fighting back by rallying lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities worldwide to join the fight.
ACS is the nation’s largest non-governmental investor in cancer research, contributing about $3.4 billion. As a result, more than 11 million people in America who have had cancer and countless more who have avoided it will be celebrating birthdays this year. To learn more about ACS or to get help, call 1-800-227-2345 day or night, or visitcancer.org.
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