Visit downtown Wake Forest on Friday, April 10, and help save lives during Art After Hours Cancer Awareness Night, benefiting Relay For Life and the American Cancer Society. Volunteers will be on hand in select stores accepting donations and showing you how to honor loved ones battling cancer or remember those lost to cancer, as well as providing cancer prevention tips.
Currently, Relay For Life is recruiting teams from schools, families, places of worship, neighborhoods, businesses, etc., to participate May 16 at Heritage High School. Relay is a community-based event where team members set up campsites and take turns walking in honor of those who’ve battled cancer. Each team has at least one participant on the track at all times, and cancer survivors and caregivers take a celebratory first lap.
Relay teams are committed to finishing the fight against cancer and raise funds to support the American Cancer Society’s lifesaving mission. Sign up at www.RelayForLife.org/NorthernWakeNC<http://www.RelayForLife.org/NorthernWakeNC, or contact co-chair Marty Coward at 919-760-3520 or martycoward@nc.rr.com.
Upcoming events:
Sunday, April 12 — Dine For A Cure at Texas Roadhouse, 11140 Capital Blvd., Wake Forest, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; the restaurant donates 10 percent of proceeds to Relay (email skuhns@wcpss.net<mailto:skuhns@wcpss.net to receive the required flier)
Thursday, April 23 — Relay team meeting 6:30 p.m. at The Factory (upstairs in the Mill Room), Wake Forest;
Saturday, April 25 — second annual Marga-Relay-ville 5k race through downtown Wake Forest; 8:30 a.m.; for details, call 919-522-3695
Saturday, May 16 — Relay For Life, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., at Heritage High School.
