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Survivor lunch preparers and servers

Relay For Life Survivors Lunch

Survivor Table volunteers

The youngest survivor in attendance is Hannah Rehkop.

A large crowd gathers for the Survivors Lunch before the Relay For Life.

Survivor Lindell Sikes asks the blessing over the meal.

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Ricky Phillips was recognized for being a 44-year cancer survivor.

Oldest male and female survivors in attendance are Noby LaPlant and Gladys Pogue.

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Event Chair April Sarakas welcomes everyone to the Survivors Lunch, sponsored by Pense Bros. Drilling.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | B3

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Several local survivors attend the lunch.

Relay For Life Survivors Lunch Chris McCarver (Left) and David Hovis entertain during the lunch.

The survivor quilt drawing winner at the lunch was Ed Turnbaugh.

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Comments from local ACS staff partner Williams

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Elizabeth Williams

‌I want to thank each of you that are here tonight for supporting cancer survivors everywhere. I thank you all just for coming here tonight to support each other. I also want to thank the American Cancer Society for continuing to push for a CURE! The money that all of you have raised will support patient services, life-saving research, prevention, Education and Advocacy efforts…..and this is why we RELAY! Now….LET’S HELP FIND A CURE!!!!

You have gathered as a com-

munity determined to support our loved ones who are facing cancer and to remember those whom have lost their battle. So that together we will continue to fight back so that one day NO ONE in Madison or Iron Counties will have to hear those dreadful words – “You have cancer.”

Relay For Life gives us the opportunity to remember and celebrate the lives of cancer victims. At Relay, we remember these special people that we have cared for with the lighting of the luminarias. Many of you have purchased and decorated all of these luminarias that are

being placed outside on the luminaria track and also the memorial lanterns. Each one helps to hold a special remembrance or celebration of the person it was made for. I encourage you to go outside and look at all the luminarias. Look at the pictures on them and the special messages that people wrote about their loved ones. This is what Relay is all about. Remembering those we have lost, honoring those who are still with us and celebrating our caregivers.

Thank you all for coming and I hope you enjoy this beautiful evening.

2016 RELAY FOR LIFE COMMITTEE

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2016 Relay For Life Committee

April Sarakas

Message from Event Chair April Sarakas FROM THE RELAY FOR LIFE PROGRAM

‌ elcome Relay Friends!

W Thank you so much for being here tonight and for all of your support throughout the entire year! I hope you all enjoy yourselves! If I can be of assistance to any of you through the next year, please don’t hesitate to ask.

If you or a loved one needs assistance from the American Cancer Society at any time, their phone number is 1-800-227-2345.

I can be found on Facebook, call or text me at 573-747-6690 or my email is april.sarakas@hotmail.com. I truly want to be your silent friend that you can lean on.

The 2016 theme is PAINT YOUR WORLD PURPLE. I hope you have a wonderful time at Relay and please join us again next year.

100 years ago, the American Cancer Society started the fight of a lifetime. Sixty years ago, 1 out of 3 people diagnosed with cancer survived. Today, thanks in part to the work of the American Cancer Society, 2 out of 3 will survive.

Let’s make it 3 out of 3! Join us to help finish the fight! The American Cancer Society has made some huge discoveries involving cancer in the past decade. Their dream is to end cancer within the next decade. I would LOVE to see that happen.

I dream of a world with NO cancer!

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(Chair) $50 Sponsorship – Dawn Matthews (Chair) Logistics – Phillip Sarakas (Chair) Advocacy – Pam Boyd (Chair) & Jerry Boyd Team Retention – Pam Boyd (Chair) & April Sarakas Hospitality – Helen Clauser (Chair) Publicity (Radio) – Jessica Hampton & Kim Long Activities & Entertainment –

Sue Mitchell (Chair) Survivor – Janet Wagganer (Chair), Patty Finch, Eddie Stacy, Gloria Robinson, Barb Stacy & Dawn Matthews $250+ Sponsorship – Danny Wagganer (Chair) Paint The Town Purple Chair – Angie Thomlison (Chair), Donna Toole Team Recruitment – April Sarakas (Chair) Online – April Sarakas (Chair),

Pam Boyd, Angie Thomlison, Helen Clauser & Janet Wagganer Registration/Information – Pam Boyd Decoration – Angie Thomlison $25 Sponsorship – Chris Browers (Chair) Mission/Fight Back – Jason Wagganer (Volunteer) Accounting – Danny Wagganer (Chair) & Phillip Sarakas Photography – Amy Walka & Amy Parson (Co-Chairs)

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | B5

RELAY FOR LIFE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

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Games and Activities Committee Chairwoman Sue Mitchell borrows Event Chairwoman April Sarakas during her game demonstration for participants.

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B6 | Wednesday, June 22, 2016

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | B7

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | B9

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B10 | Wednesday, June 22, 2016

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SCENES FROM THE 2016 MADISON/IRON COUNTY RELAY FOR LIFE

Following Guest Speaker Sue Mitchell’s address, (Left to Right) her niece Morgan Kopitsky, son Logan Mitchell, and daughter Mandy Garber surprise her with a performance of “Stone” by Allesia Cara.

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Kaitlyn Coffman sings the National Anthem during the Opening Ceremony.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | B11

2016 Relay For Life Luminaria Ceremony

Former Police Chief Keith DeSpain, Former Sheriff David Lewis, and Presiding Commissioner Bob Mooney read the names during the ceremony.

Photos by Alan Kopitsky, Democrat News‌

Several Relay attendees participate in the annual Luminaria Ceremony in the parking area between the middle and high schools.

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