Help Light The Path For A Cure
This award-winning photo taken by Jack Gurner shows the magnetism of the annual Luminaria Lighting Ceremony. Relay For Life Team members are selling luminarias for $10 to light the track during the April 23 Relay For Life event.
By Jeannie Clement
RFL Publicity Chairman
As part of this year’s annual Yalobusha County’s Relay For Life, citizens will have the opportunity to remember loved ones who have lost their battle with cancer and to honor those loved ones who are now battling cancer or who have won their fight against cancer by purchasing luminarias in their name.
Each luminaria represents the love that families, friends, neighbors, and co-workers have for a survivor who is winning their battle against cancer, or for the memory of someone who lost their fight against cancer.
These luminarias will circle the walking track at Crawford Sports Complex where the event will be held on Friday, April 23. At 9 p.m. a special Luminaria Lighting Ceremony will begin. All activities will cease, and the lights will be turned off, and then each of the luminarias that surround the track will be lit.
In the silence and darkness a prayer will be spoken for the cancer survivors and their families, and for the families and friends of those who have lost their battle with this terrible disease. During this time the name on each luminaria will be read, and the luminarias will remain lit throughout the remainder of the 24 hour event to light the walkers path.
Each luminaria that glows brightly around the track will represent the love and hope of hundreds of family members and friends. They are a reminder to everyone of the fact that cancer never sleeps and the importance of the fight to find a cure.
Luminarias can be purchased from any Relay For Life Team Member or at Mechanics Bank for a $10 donation to the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life Yalobusha County. Please show your support in the fight against cancer, as well as honoring a cancer patient, by purchasing a luminaria today.
