Ready? Set. Relay! Recap of the Relay Reunion

Relay Reunion was successful night for 'evolving' Relay For Life

Lots of information was provided, and many more registrations were taken on March 2 at Relay Reunion at Quality Hotel & Suites.
Relay For Life is a very large annual Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser and the Woodstock event has traditionally been in the Top 10 for the province for both number of participants and dollars raised.
The Relay Reunion featured more info on registering for Relay, along with registering survivors, promoting the sale of luminaries, signing up more volunteers (There are a countless number of areas which always need assistance.), info on children activities at Relay, and naturally many details about cancer research and prevention.

Kelly Jorgensen and John Hunt

Relay For Life in Woodstock is seeing exciting changes for 2015:
- Saturday (June 13), 6 p.m. - midnight -- instead of all-night on a Friday.
- Participants are still encouraged to form teams or groups, but emphasis is more on individual fundraising. You can certainly still bring your tent.
- The motto 'Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.' has been retired and replaced with 'Ready? Set. Relay!' (See picture of banner)
- Instead of Captain's Meetings there are now several Relay For Life short walks so you can update your fundraising with steering committee member Sandy Smith (More details to follow).
- Relay will not have a silent auction this year.

GREAT INGREDIENTS
At the same time, the important ingredients of Relay For Life continue:
- Raising money for cancer research at the national level, while still supporting the many local initiatives.
- Honouring and recognizing 'Survivors'
- Having an opening ceremony to place the proper focus on the event.
- Surrounding the CASS track with luminaries to remember those who lost their battle with cancer and to recognize all the people who continue treatments for a clean bill-of-health.
- Entertainment on the stage.
- Family / children activities.
- Our Woodstock event continues to have great participation from local businesses, notably restaurants who supply the logistics, set up and other volunteers their lunch break on the day of the event, plus dinner for everyone registered, and additional refreshments throughout the night.
- Many many other corporate sponsors.

Deb Moss                           Sandy Smith

Maartje VanWely

Karen Hume talks to Carol at welcoming table

Contact: Jan Cunningham, Liz Wismer-VanMeer or Kelly Jorgensen at the CCS office. (519) 537-5592.
Emails:
Jan: jcunningham@ontario.cancer.ca
Liz: lwismer-vanmeer@ontario.cancer.ca
Kelly: kjorgensen@ontario.cancer.ca