Thursday 11 February 2016

Update on Relay for 2016, including dates for Captain's Nights

Goal for Woodstock event is $165,000 and 60 teams
Register your team online today and plan to attend Relay Rally on Feb. 24

In an anticipation of an important event, you sometimes receive a postcard saying: ‘Save The Date’.
For Woodstock’s Relay For Life, there are four dates to remember leading up to June 10 at CASS.
The annual largest fundraiser in Oxford County for the Canadian Cancer Society is happening for the 17th time in Woodstock and it all the lead-up is kicked off with the Relay Rally.
Relay Rally
Wednesday, Feb 24, 5 – 7:30 p.m.
Quality Hotel & Suites
Captain’s Meetings
Wednesday, April 6, 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m.
Fanshawe College, Finkle St
Bank Night
Tuesday, June 7, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
CASS High School
Relay For Life
Friday, June 10, 7 p.m.
CASS High School
Read the link to the story in the Woodstock Sentinel-Review and the earlier entry in the blog site here, as Relay Rally is an open house format where you can talk to committee members about the event, register your team, pick a campsite (The campsite map idea is returning for 2016), select a time for Bank Night, purchase a luminary (or two or three or 10), pick up information packages to assist in fundraising, sign up as a volunteer on a sub-committee to help make 2016 Relay successful, and learn more about this year’s goals. If you are a cancer survivor, you can also commit to the Survivor’s Lap at Relay at 7 p.m. on June 10.
The Woodstock goals for 2016, by the way, are 60 teams (Teams can be as few as four and as many as 25), 525 participants, and $165,000.



Much of the event’s timetable has shifted somewhat with the change back to Friday for Relay For Life in Woodstock. At the same time, many of the same sponsors are onboard once again, including Boston Pizza and Scott’s No Frills in making the food tent and dinner time an important ingredient in the evening as there is always a lot of value in your $15 registration fee.
VOLUNTEERS
Do you have expertise in assisting running an event – big or small -- the Relay For Life committee needs people with a few hours to spare to assist in many ways. Contact Liz Wismer-VanMeer or Kelly Jorgensen at (519) 537-5592
Sentinel-Review picture (from left): 
Mark Schadenberg, Sandy Smith, Deb Moss. 
Co-chairs for 2016 event are Deb Moss and Sandy Smith. 


Canadian Cancer Society
Relay For Life
College Avenue Secondary School – Woodstock
Friday, June 10, 7 p.m. – 1 a.m.
Facebook ‘Group’: Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life in Woodstock
Facebook ‘Event’: Relay For Life in Woodstock
Twitter Hashtags: #WhyIRelay #AcceptTheBaton or #ReadySetRelay
CCS Oxford Community Office: 65 Springbank Ave North
(519) 537-5592

LINKS:
www.woodstockrelay.blogspot.com
http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2016/02/08/woodstock-prepares-for-2016-relay-for-life-event-with-goal-of-raising-165000-for-the-canadian-cancer-society