by Cami Moore
The weekend of April 11-12 Utah State University’s field house was the host for Logan City’s first local Relay for Life event.
The event started a little later than scheduled, around 7:30 p.m., with opening ceremonies. The luminary ceremony was performed, in honor of those struggling with and who have died of cancer. Following the ceremony was the survivor lap, where all participants who have survived from cancer walk a lap around the track together. This group consisted of many people of all different ages and varying types of cancer they have or are suffering from.
“As a cancer survivor I thought it was to show other cancer survivors and those struggling with cancer and other afflictions that they can do it to,” said survivor Trevor Linderman. “I want them to know that there are people out there who have been through it supporting them too!”
Along with the survivor walk and luminary ceremony, various events were held throughout the night such as a joust, a showing of the movie “A Knight’s Tale,” and other games and activities throughout the night.
“We had a great time with a twister tournament,” said event organizer Amy Howes, “and ‘jousting’ which turned into beating each other senseless with a couple of pool noodles.”
Through the night each team had to have at least one person walking on the track. So there was always at least a few people walking around the track at all times. Although smaller than other events the committee seemed satisfied with the turnout. There were at least 50 participants, coming from different teams that were organized and single participants as well.
“Being a first year event and never having been on a committee before, I wasn't quite sure what to expect,” said Howes. “Finding myself in charge of the event, I was more concerned with getting people there and actually having an event.”
The committee hopes to continue having a local Relay for Life event every year and anticipate for it to become a bigger event. They hope to see more participants in the future.
“Even with all the publicity (flyers, word of mouth, newspaper article, etc) most people still had no clue what it was or that it was going on,” said Howes. “It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it in the end.”
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4 comments:
Hey, this is interesting, but things you need to fix are: Commas (,) you have commas in weird places and it's putting unnatural stops in your story. You also need to attribute everything! That will cover your butt so you don't get in trouble (by Pease or the person you interviewed : )
-Greg Boyles-
I liked your article, but the quotes did not flow as well as they could have.
-amanda clyde
Your story is catchy! I think the first two paragraphs should be rearranged so that the first has a little more information and the second is not so large. good job!
Good story, I agree with the how the quotes didn't exactly flow but it was a good story and interesting subject.
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