Relay For Life: More birthdays for everyone!

Birthdays are good, and more birthdays even better.  Through fundraising and education, the American Cancer Society helps your friends, family, neighbors and business associates navigate through their cancer journeys and celebrate more birthdays.

Relay For Life of Evanston is one of many national and international ACS sponsored events that raise funds dedicated to research, community education and patient support and services for those facing cancer. Your research dollars permitted American Cancer Society studies that linked smoking and obesity to an increased risk of cancer.  These are the same funds that brought Tamoxifen to the forefront of breast cancer treatment.  All of these advances came about through the efforts of dedicated community members and their ACS staff partners, who told their stories and engaged family, friends and neighbors to Relay For Life.

This year's event is scheduled for May 11-12 at Evanston Township High School.  Teams of students and community members walk the track, honor survivors and their caregivers, remember those who have lost their battle with cancer, and most importantly- fight back and offer hope to families facing cancer.

Relay For Life of Evanston has increased its fundraising and participation the past two years, garnering statewide All Star status for 2012.  Our goals are high for 2013 and we need your .  No donation is too small, no time spent participating at the event is too short.  If you would like to form a team, donate or volunteer, please visit www.RelayForLife.org/EvanstonIl  or contact me, Mike Stern of TheRose Warriors 2013   mike.stern@cbexchange.com.   Don't forget to purchase a luminaria to honor or remember someone who faced cancer- $10 each and so appreciated by those recognized and their families.