Relay For Life Gears Up For April 23 Event
Jonnie Mayo gleefully points out the next victim -uh- we mean contributor to the Red Hats Relay for Life fundraiser. Jonnie is clutching the red hat that will be placed on the contributors head. She is being helped out by Linda White (right), Mary Sue Stevens (left) and Snooky Williams, who appears to be really enjoying his hat. – Official Red Hat photos courtesy of Mary Sue Stevens
Enjoying the ride are Binnie Turnage, Raymond Avant, and one of the guys who sits around the drug store.
Supervisor Tommy Vaughn thinks he’s wearing a pirate hat.
Attorney John Crow and Pharmacist Bobby Turnage model their chapeaus.
Dr. Steve Edwards is a sight in his red hat.
Liz Reynolds, the instigator of the fund raiser, attempts to sneak a hat on Herald reporter Jack Gurner. The old saying is clothes make the man, but that hat ain’t going to help Jack.
Attorney Daniel Martin was among the contributors.
Hollie Fortune and Deidra Adams can’t miss as they smear pie on Yalobusha General Hospital Administrator Terry Varner last Friday. The event, in which hospital employees purchased pies to toss at Varner and other staff, raised money for the hospital’s Relay For Life team. – Photo by David Howell
There was no where to turn as hospital employees hurled pies at Vanessa Carvan during a fundraiser held last Friday. Carvan was among several hospital staff members who was targeted by the Yalobusha General Hospital Relay For Life Team to face the pie throw. Pies were sold to raise money for the county’s annual Relay for Life, scheduled April 23. – Photo by David Howell
The 50-plus ladies (you have to be 50 years old to be a member) spend most of the day riding around town gathering up the unsuspecting, feeding them sandwiches and cookies, and then taking a donation to let them off the trolley, according to Red Hat member Mary Sue Stevens.
“It was Liz Reynolds idea,” she added. “And, we raised a lot of money.”
The unique fund-raiser will benefit the American Cancer as part of the annual Yalobusha County Relay For Life scheduled for April 23 at the Crawford Sports Complex.
The 2009 Yalobusha County Relay For Life raised $65,501.03.
And, check out the video at YouTube.
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The Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department Relay For Life Team is selling raffle tickets for a number of items to raise money for Relay for life.
Items include:
• Cambuckle camo tie-downs; Power Hunter duck blind; speed waw/quick cutter combo; Ducks Unlimited mega bottle thermos; Ducks Unlimited blaze orange strap hunting vest blazer; certificate for Occasions and Petals in Coffeeville; $10 gift certificates for Turnage Drug Store; $20 gift certificate for El-Charritos; rock peck repair from Leverette Auto in Grenada; buffet for two at Scotts Crossroads; Pool Shock Treatment from Roo’s Pool and Spa in Grenada; $20 gift certificate for Spankys BBQ in Grenada; free oil change at Custom Exhaust Systems in Grenada; gift certificate for a 1 hour photo session and $20.00 free prints from Lawanna Fly Photo in Coffeeville; assorted jewelry from Hand Bags Galore in Grenada; and a $10 gift card from Spencers Dairy Kream in Grenada.
Raffle tickets range in cost from $1 to $3 each. The team is also selling t-shirts for $15.
Tickets and t-shirts can be purchased Monday through Friday at the sheriff’s department on County Road 436.
Tickets will also be available April 23, the night of the county’s event, at Crawford Sports Complex.
