Last weekend was Emmett's first American Cancer Society Relay For Life. Relay is a fund raiser for the ACS in which they enroll community members into helping them raise money for cancer research & education. I had a bit of a bad attitude going into is because I had so much else to do and determined that I wouldn't do it again but I was caught by the bug and had a really great time.
The best part was working with my friend and fellow Mae-Ma, Lyleen Jerome. She and I co-chaired the food committee. Which means we catered a dinner for 35 cancer survivors and their caregivers in the park (70 people), it included a fruit appetizer and dessert. We also provided dinner for one team of 20 who met their team goal of raising over $2,500 and provided midnight snacks of cookies, yogurt, fruit & coffee for all the teams...I'm not done, then there was breakfast for everyone. We were lucky to get the Gem County firemen to cook pancakes for us at 6:00 a.m. Between all of this we sold pizza for $2 a slice all night in the park.
I did finally crash on the air bed in Lyleens tent about 1 a.m. and tried to get some sleep. However it was so cold and I froze all night, until 4:30 am when I drove home to warm up. I took a hot shower and headed back to the park to help with breakfast and clean up.
Lyleen and I had a blast figuring out all the details then putting it all together. We found lots of time to visit between tasks and when we would walk the track together. The track was lined with luminaries, many of them decorated in memory of those who had lost their lives to cancer, and when the sun set the track was lit up so beautifully all night long until morning. There were about 17 teams who had at least one person from their team walking all night long because cancer never sleeps.
Speaking of sleep, when I got home after the clean up was done, I slept and slept and slept. I woke up when Chuck made some dinner then ended up sleeping through the night. It was fun, the only thing I'll do different next year will be to probably come home to the warm house for a cat nap then back to park.
If anyone reading this has an opportunity to be involved with a Relay For Life I recommend it. It was wonderful being involved with every part of the relay but best of all was working with all the great people in Emmett.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
A Long But Rewarding Weekend
Posted by Di Cluff at 9:44 AM
Labels: Life in Emmett
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3 comments:
I absolutly love the realy for life. My dad has Leukima so my family has become very involved with this we have a team and have done in Rupert the Lat two Years. I told Holly that we should make a team next In rupert The LDS Church was the only one not involved in it so Are team is made up of are family and the youth in are ward but everyone in the ward seems to get invovled I would love for something like that to happen Here in Emmett!
I believe there was only one team from a church, St. Mary's and they were awesome! Mostly older ladies than me and they talked and walked all night long! You could make a team up from your ward for next year, we would love to have you. I will continue to participate on the committee. It is a lot of fun.
Great job. It sounds like a big success.
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