Shoals Area Relay For Life
Friday, May 12, 2006
"Relay Land ~ Tune in For A Cure"
The temperature was around 70 degrees and windy when Dorothy and I arrived at the North West Alabama Fairgrounds for the Survivors Dinner. Very enjoyable. After we ate, we went outside and walked around the Fairgrounds looking at all the booths that had been set up by the Sponsors. After a little while, a band began entertaining us on the stage with music and singing. Very good band. At 7:00 PM, all of the Cancer Survivors lined up to receive their medallions and to begin the 2-mile Survivors Lap around the track. Dorothy and I walked together. This year I took my walker with me, and placed my oxygen tank into the basket, which took a load off my shoulder. I had to stop once along the way to sit down and rest for a few minutes. After resuming walking, we finally made it to the end of the lap, at which time the MC instructed us to let our balloons go. Up and away they went, to land who knows where. At 8:00 PM, there was a ceremony to light the luminaries in "honor of" and in "memory of" Cancer Survivors. Each of the Survivors attending also had a luminary with his or her name on it. It was a very enjoyable, but tiring day.
We attended the 2007 ACS Relay For Life on May 18th, 2007, but I did not take any photos, nor did I build a new web page. The following graphic is the 2007 Survivors Medallion laying on a part of a Survivors T-Shirt. Dorothy and I each received one of each at the Relay.
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