# Relay for Life Was Great!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relay-for-life-was-great/61170
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 7, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relay-for-life-was-great/61170 "2001-04-07T18:31:18Z")
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### Author: ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relay-for-life-was-great/61170/1 "2001-04-07T18:31:18Z")

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Yesterday (Friday, 6 April 2001) and today, our H.S. Relay for Life team spent 18 hours enjoying one another’s company and walking around a track all night. It was great fun!

Relay for Life is an event put together (on a national scale, I believe) to raise money for cancer research. Our local (Mt. Dora, Eustis, Umatilla and Tavares, FL) goal this year was to raise $85,000. We raised over $106,000!!!

Hooray! Our team, consisting of myself, a few other adults and a slew of students, aimed for $1,000 and raised $1,151.75!! The kids were great!

I just wanted to express my joy at this outcome, and thank everyone who works on behalf of the American Cancer Society and any of the other cancer-fighting charities. If anyone wants to lend their support (we start RFL 2002 next week), please do so by posting fund-raising ideas in this thread.

I’m not sure if I can ask for money here, so I **won’t.**