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Relay Organizer Offers Thanks
April 28, 2009
The event chair for the Century Relay for Life is offering her thanks to the communities of North Escambia for their participation in the event which has raised almost $21,000 for the American Cancer Society.
Submitted by Paula Jernigan, Event Chair, Century Relay for Life.
“Relay for Life is about a community coming together to take up the fight!” What an amazing community we live in!
From Molino to Flomaton and Brewton, from Milton and Jay to Atmore — we are all one community of survivors, caregivers, and supporters in the fight against cancer. To everyone who participated in Century’s Relay for Life I send my heartfelt thanks.
Steering Committee, I would be lost without your hard work and moral support. Team Captains, without you there would be no Relay. Team members, you are the backbone of the event; the workers who are faithful and strong. So many businesses supported our efforts, donating food and gifts and making monetary contributions. I thank you.
Those members of the community who bought donuts you didn’t need, got cars washed that were already clean, put change in collection cans at stores, bought other people’s “treasures” at yard sales…you are the lifeblood of Relay for Life. Your dollars provide funding for research, services and education in the fight against cancer.
Entertainers, you braved the heat and traveled from afar to keep us going and bring us joy. Thank you. Softball teams braved the heat to “Get in the Game to Defeat Cancer” at Showalter Park during our event and raised $1401.00! HOORAH!
William, your coverage of our event is amazing. Your photos capture the spirit of Relay for Life; the joyous and the poignant. Thank you.
Survivors and caregivers, YOU are our “reason to relay.” You are the reason we were able to raise $20,638.30 to date, with more money still coming in! What a wonderful community we live in!
Paula Jernigan
Event Chair
For complete coverage of this past weekend’s Century Relay for Life, including 150 photographs, click here.
Pictured above: The Survivor’s Brunch at Saturday’s Relay for Life in Century. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Relay Organizer Offers Thanks”
GREAT job Paula! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this year’s event a success! There were LOTS of happy faces present. still the ‘ best little Relay’ because of the people in the community! thank you everyone…
Great job, Paula.! When communities work together we get more done. Relay is a wonderful thing and the event can be fun too. It took lots of work on the part of many to get the relay together. It’s all about doing something good to help many others that you don’t know.! That is the kind of people that live here…. caring people..
thanks to all of you who worked hard to made the event a success.
thats wonderful! i have someone dear to me and my family thats still fighting cancer and i wish there was a cure to prevent it..but it’s in God’s hands as well as everyone else that’s dealing this this and i hope there will be cure for all cancer really soon! god bless everyone and don’t give up!