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Relay for Life walkers brave stormy night

tee had tallied up the results of the pledges col- lected since May 22. This year’s SFX Relay for Life beat its own goal of $25,000 with a final total of $28,500. That brings the combined total for the five years the event has taken place to more than $110,000 raised for cancer research and support. “Although this has been an amazing night, it does not end here,” Devin Lamothe, committee co-chair, told students gathered in the cafeteria. “If it wasn’t for you, we would not have been able to raise this huge amount that we did. Don’t for- get what you did here tonight, and use it as fuel to continue the fight against cancer.”

and other participants to keep on doing their laps. When not on their walking shifts, students took quick naps in the school hallways and class- rooms. By the end of the night as students cleaned up the grounds outside and headed over to the cafeteria for the breakfast buffet, the commit-

night snack,”said Robyn Iannitto, co-chair for the SFX Relay for Life Committee. “Right when that happened, it was pouring rain. No one could sleep in their tents, it was windy and wet.” Students and staff and support volunteers shifted everything inside and set up an alternate track in the gym for the 30 teams of 258 students

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Hammond/Maxville | Neither wild winds nor monsoon rain nor gloom of night stopped these dedicated walkers from doing their part to help raise money and public awareness for cancer research. In both Maxville and Hammond the annual Relay for Life proved an endurance test in more ways than one this year. The weekend of June was filled with storm skies but the wind and the rain did not douse the spirits of participants walking their rounds to raise money for cancer research. “It’s pretty impressive to see the determina- tion and dedication of these people,” said Caro- lyn Bourassa, manager for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry-Prescott- Russell branch (SDG-PR).“And in spite of the rain the luminaries glowed very brightly in the dark.” The annual Maxville Relay for Life saw 130 teams, totalling 1300 participants, making their way around the fairgrounds track starting at 7 p.m. Friday. Howling winds drove almost ev- eryone indoors to the arena around 1 a.m. after tents started blowing over, and that is where the relay finished its rounds by 7 a.m. Bourassa noted one participant refused to go inside but continue her march around and around the fair- ground track under the watchful eyes of a cou- ple of Relay for Life volunteers to make sure she had hot coffee or chocolate and did not suffer from hypothermia. The Monday morning tally for the Maxville Re- lay for Life gave an estimate of $384,000 raised with pledges, on-site donations, and sale of memorial luminaries. Bourassa expects the final total for the event will be even greater once the remaining pledges come in. “We’ll hit $400,000 for sure, for sure. We have teams whose pledges are still coming in.” Students at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic High School in Hammond endured the stormy weath- er until midnight Friday then took their Fifth An- nual Relay for Life inside their own school and kept on walking until the grey dawn light. “Around midnight is when we have our mid-

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Photos Paulo Casimiro and Gregg Chamberlain After a long night of walking in the rain and then around the gym in the SFX Relay for Life (top), some students manage to find enough energy to enjoy breakfast while others prefer to doze. Umbrellas and other rain gear proved a necessary part of every walker’s attire at Maxville during the annual Relay for Life along with a good sense of humour.

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