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SAUK VILLAGE | Several hundred participated in the annual Relay for Life held Friday night at Bloom Trail High School McGee Fieldhouse due to the spring chill.
This year's Relay for Life is expected to raise about $40,000 according to Myra Kocsis, Relay for Life Specialist for the American Cancer Society.
"This event is for survivors to celebrate and for those to remember those who lost the battle" Kocsis said.
So why do they walk all night? "Cancer never sleeps, it's a battle we must fight 24/7" Kocsis said.
There were 26 teams who participated according to Kocsis and the Boy Scouts presented colors
during the opening of the event. Eagle Scout candidate Lance James was a volunteer committee member along with his mother Tracy James and the following committee members who all volunteer their time Baily McGrath, Darlene McGrath, Jean Porter, Ann Gasik, Colleen Ranieri, Timmy Porter, Tim Porter, Sherry Brill and Juanita Tomlin.
Sauk Village Trustee Derrick Burgess stopped in to lend his encouragement to the event. His wife Juanita a cancer survivor as well.
The event turned somber at 9:30 with the lighting of the luminaria and remembering those who lost their battles to cancer. The track of the McGee Fieldhouse were lined with the names of those who were remembered and readers read each name to a completely hushed crowd.
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