2006

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UREN VOLARViCHITHE NEWlON RECORD Teams kick off Relay for Life wrth their first of many walks around the track throughout the rest of the night to reinforce the motto, "Cancer Never Sleeps". Members from each team take turns walking the track unt I after midnight. Wann temps don't eter Relay for L. supporters

dead!) d The annual eYent \\ ent off without a hitch at the East Central Community College walking track just north of the Decatur cam- . pus. And the weather even cooperated with a gor– geous day and a warm night for the event. j "It was a beautiful place to have it," said Mitchell Holloway, community rep– resentative for the Ameri– can Cancer Society. ··r think the turnout was great. We really had a

t rab e funds to find a cure for this hornnc diseas(... "Most of the teams wore something tic·dyed. but some of them had SO's and 60's themes too," said Relay Chair Coleen Stevens. "We had a very good crowd. There was a whole lot of team partici– pation, and if it wasn't for ~ EC we would have had a hard time getting this together:"

LAUREN VOLARVICHITHE NEWTON RECORD Local musician and ECCC employee Mickey Vance See RELAY, Page llA performs Friday night at the Newton County Relav for Life.