VOL. 69 NO. 24
66 YEARS OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016
Relay for Life’s BBQ nourishes optimism for cancer survivors
Many young people attended the fundraising Community Barbecue for Relay for Life at Vegreville Sunshine Club on June 11. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
Rosanne Fortier Cancer starts with the same letter as courage because that is what it takes to survive cancer. But a new future is possible for people with cancer if communities pull together. Vegreville Sunshine Club Center flickered with hope as a full hall of citizens attended the fundraising Community Barbecue for Relay for Life on June 11. This event, a silent auction and team efforts generated over $8000 which will be used to support the Canadian Cancer Society for research, to stop cancer before it starts and to
provide transportation for treatments, compassionate care and to ensure that no one has to face cancer alone. At this event, it was noted that one of the best ways to prevent cancer is to stop smoking. Throughout the afternoon, musical performers-Music Makers, Danielle Marie, Audrey Stefan and Rachal Melenka presented songs which carried heartfelt notes of what it is like to walk the journey through cancer. Audrey Stefan who is known in Vegreville as having a unique talent for singing has recently
graduated from St. Mary’s High School and she just released her first single debut-Nothing You’ve Seen on June 28. Viola Braun-Fox, a cancer survivor was the Master of Ceremony. Viola stated that in 2011, she walked the Relay for Life as a three-day breast cancer survivor. Her journey with cancer took a lot of hard work and patience and she learned so many things from having cancer. “I needed to learn to receive rather than to give. It is so much easier to give. I needed
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