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| Ready to walk the Survivor's Lap |
Nationally, the Relay For Life has it's roots in 1985, when a Tacoma Washington colorectal surgeon named Gordy Klatt held his own event, walking over 83 miles in 24 hours while friends paid $25 to run or walk 30 minutes with him. That year Dr. Klatt raised $27,000. As he walked the track, he came up with the idea of a 24 hour team relay event. Within months he assembled a committee to help plan the event, known then as the City of Destiny Classic 24-Hour Run Against Cancer. That event raised $33,000.
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| Beginning the Survivor's Lap |
Our first Relay For Life event was held in 1995 with 30 survivors, raised $17,000, had one underwriter and 11 teams. In the second year $20,000 was raised with the total going up yearly until a few years ago when Relay raised a total of $200,000.
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| Food, food and more food! |
In 2013 some of the events that happened at the Howard/Glasscock Relay were: silent auction, survivor's meal, opening ceremony, survivor's lap, various entertainers, hope ceremony, auctions, luminaria, bingo, face painting, digging for lifesavers, a limbo lap, dominoes, bunny hop lap, water balloon shot put, chicken dance lap, yahtzee, grow a beard contest, wake up lap, whale of a lap, closing ceremony and victory lap.
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| Luminarias lit for the Luminaria Ceremony |
This year, 2013, had 21 teams.
If you would like more information about Relay For Life, both locally and nationally, here are some links I found while searching online for information:
I took many more pictures than what are shown above. If you are interested in seeing more of them you can visit this link.
If you would like to share any of your memories of past Relays or mention any special people who have survived or were lost to cancer please feel free to share that in the comments below.
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