Last Team Meeting Before 20th Mid-Cape Relay for Life Inspires Last Leg of Fundraising

DENNIS – The final team meeting before the 20th Mid-Cape Relay for Life took place this weekend to encourage participants for one last leg of fundraising before the big event.

The relay will take place June 17th and 18th, 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday, at the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School Track.

This year’s event is set to honor those who were present for the first run as well as the survivors and family caregivers who’ve attended multiple years.

David Norlach, who started his Relay tenure in 1998 at the second Mid-Cape event after fighting breast cancer, said the day is particularly geared toward survivors.

“If you’re diagnosed or in treatment and come to this event and you see all these survivors, it gives you hope,” he said.

The upcoming Relay will feature a survivors’ dinner Saturday at 5 p.m. right in the middle of the action on the track.

Susie Frost, a leukemia survivor, started in 2004 as a runner and soon moved up the committee ladder. She was hired by the American Cancer Society, the event’s benefactor organization, last year.

In this capacity, she helps event leads in all of the region’s relays plan out their efforts to raise money for cancer research.

“As a survivor, I can remember the exact moment I thought, ‘this is what I need to do so that the people after me can have the same outcome as me,’” she said. “My nephew is getting married this summer, so 14 years ago if people hadn’t raised money for research, maybe I wouldn’t get to see him get married.”

So far, 269 people comprised of 35 teams have signed up to keep one member walking or running on the track during the entire 24-hour period.

Those teams have raised $43,400 out of a $100,000 goal.

Visit www.relayforlife.org/MidCapeMA for more information.

 

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