Letter to the Editor

Planning under way for Relay for Life 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

To the editor:

Relay for Life 2013 will kick off the new year with a meeting on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 5:15 p.m. at the Great River Medical Center executive dining room. I encourage all current team captains and committee chairs to please attend. If you cannot do so, please send a representative in your place.

I also want to invite any cancer survivor who would like to participate in our Relay for Life event to come to this meeting. We have positions that need to be filled, and your help is always needed. The reason we relay is to CELEBRATE with survivors of cancer, to REMEMBER those who did not survive, and the help FIGHT BACK. The money raised through our Relay for Life event goes toward research to help find a cure for cancer.

WE NEED TEAMS. Schools, churches, organizations, restaurants, service clubs, dance teams, ROTC, survivors, individuals -- anyone can have a team. If you are interested in starting a Relay for Life team this year, please contact Linda Peterson at 870-838-3878. If you are a cancer survivor, we want to encourage you to please get registered so that we can contact you for upcoming events. You may register by calling Jill Hubbard at 870-762-2965, Suzanne Kenner at 870-762-2792 or Ann Coleman at 870-763-8147.

Linda Peterson
Event chair