Relay for Life

HHS Leadership Class

Stand Up If…..

What is Relay for Life?

• Honor cancer survivors • Remember loved ones lost • Fight back against cancer • 14 million cancer survivors will celebrate another birthday this year!

• Relay For Life teams camp out overnight and take turns walking or running around a track or path at a local high school, park, or fairground. • Our event is 12 hours long because cancer never sleeps!

Since Relay for Life has started in 1985 just short of

5 Billion Dollars has been raised

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For more than 65 years, the American Cancer Society as been finding answers that saves lives.

Celebrate • Relay starts with a Survivor’s Lap. • This is an inspirational time when survivors are invited to circle the track together and help everyone celebrate the victories we’ve achieved over cancer.

• This lap is an example of how Relay participants are ensuring that more lives are saved each year.

Remember •

After dark, we honor people who have been touched by cancer and remember loved ones lost to the disease during the Luminaria Ceremony. Candles are lit inside bags filled with sand, each one bearing the name of a person touched by cancer, and participants often walk a lap in silence.

Fight Back • A personal commitment to save lives by taking up the fight against cancer. • By taking action, people are personally taking steps to save lives and fight back against a disease that takes too much.

HHS RFL • Only Student led Relay from Redding to Bakersfield • Only High School Relay Overnight in California • In the top 10 High School Relays in the nation • 2 years raised over one hundred thousand dollars

Hughson’s Relay • May 1 st - 2 nd from 7pm - 7am • Out on the football field • Food, games and activities, and good company

In Order to Participate in Relay… • Make your own team with family • Join a student or community team • Come from 7-10 to walk laps and participate in activities • Raise money for the cause

If You’re Interested… • Find a leadership student, we will help sign you up!!

• www.RelayforLife.org

• You won’t regret getting involved with this awesome organization!