Relay For Life: Events

Relay for Life returns to Second Life for the second year on July 22-23; the event raises money for cancer research, promotes community cancer awareness and is just plain fun.

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life began in May 1985 when a colorectal surgeon ran around a track in Tacoma, Washington, for 24 hours, raising $27,000 to support the Society. Today, Relay for Life is held in more than 4,400 communities in the United States, in 21 countries around the globe, and in the metaverse. To date, Relay for Life has raised more than $1.5 billion to help the Society accelerate the progress against cancer by saving lives, helping those touched by cancer, and empowering people to fight back against this disease.

Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this in world event. More information will be posted in this thread on a daily basis, letting you know about the activities being planned.

Also check out the sandbox, where an awareness thread will run, giving you information about cancer, the fight being waged against it, and information as to how you can help overcome this disease.

Relay is all about you, a survivor, one who is or was fighting cancer. Please step forward and share your name with us. We want to support and honor YOU. The first lap of the Relay is for survivors and their care-givers. We need you, a survivor to put the soul into Relay. To make it a true CELEBRATION and MEMORIAL to those who have been touched by cancer. Please join me and many others in walking that first lap; send your name to either Jade Lily (jade.lily@gmail.com) or Fayandria Foley (fayandrafoley@aol.com) as soon as possible.

And if you know of someone who is a survivor but you also know they will never turn their name in, please IM or email their name to us (Jade Lily, [email]jade.lily@gmail.com[/email] or Fayandria Foley, [email]fayandrafoley@aol.com[/email] ) so an invitation may be sent to them. Your name won't be mentioned and there will be no pressure applied. Thank you, we need to get an invitation to all the survivors we can locate. This is about them.

Thank you for your support,