Relay For Life again!

by morgan on 04/07/10 at 9:44 am

Relay for Life event was a couple of weeks ago and as usual it was a wonderful event. Temple Terrace Woman’s Club joined 30 other teams to celebrate survivors and raise money to beat cancer!

I was the team captain this year and it was a lot of responsibility but I enjoy this event. I am glad TTWC has decided to join RFL. This year theme was “Toon out cancer” so each team had a cartoon theme! Ours was Casper the Friendly Ghost. Our tent was wonderfully ghostly and we even played the casper song… We had a survivor in our team who walked the survivor lap.

The ceremony was great and the most exciting part was the Luminaria. As you may know (or not know), Luminaria is lighting the candles. As the sun sets over campsites and darkness falls, the night is brightened by the glow of illuminated bags called luminaria, each bearing the name of someone who has battled cancer. Some celebrate cancer survivors, while others help us honor and remember those gone too soon. All represent someone special who has been profoundly affected by cancer and the family and friends who continue to fight back in their honor. I am partial to this ceremony because I was in it this year. I was among the 5 people chosen from the teams to recite a poem. My poem was called: “I Light A Candle”. I was pretty nervous to read this but then I realized the lights are off and it is pretty dark and I could only see if I used flashlight to read, so I read! I did enjoyed it a lot….

I wanted to thank eveyone who stopped by our tent to visit and buy raffle tickets and give us word of encouragements. Please join us again next year….