More than 400 people filled the Juniper Valley Park Track on Saturday, June 24, for the fourth annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life helping raise $115,000, one of the most successful relays since it started.
Local residents, cancer survivors, caregivers, family members and friends formed relay teams and participated in the event that started at 5 p.m. on Saturday and concluded at 9 a.m. the following day.
“This has been one of the most successful relays,” said Keith Hudson, a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. “This is the fourth annual relay, and it has been such a great relay in the Middle Village Community.”
Maspeth Federal Savings, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, and Penmark Realty helped sponsor the relay.
For those who participate in Relay For Life, the event represents the hope that those lost to cancer will never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be supported, and that the disease will one day be entirely curable.
Since the first Relay For Life was held in 1985 in Tacoma, Washington, the event has raised nearly $2 billion. In 2006, Relay For Life will raise well over $300 million. More than three million people, about one in 100 Americans, will take part in Relays this year. Half a million of them are cancer survivors.
Relay for Life raises $115,000
By Pete Davis
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