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To the editor: It was over $100,000 on Saturday night, before the
brunch on Sunday. It's the biggest amount in Logan County's 10-year
[Relay for Life] history.
Words cannot express or convey the roller coaster of emotions
that you go through as you watch your neighbors pour out their love
for one another. There are images in my mind that will be with me
for years to come: a firetruck with a little girl with cancer, which
served as this year's grand marshal, and her family leading the
survivor lap to begin the day's events; through tear-filled eyes
witnessing and recognizing friends and family in the survivor lap
and applauding them for their courage while standing with them in
hope to find a cure; a lady in a wheelchair with oxygen who wanted
to be a part of her community's effort to stamp out cancer;
conversations with friends I didn't know were fighting cancer or had
battled it and won; scores of friends and people who looked
familiar, along with people I don't even know, who kept coming to
walk the track because they knew someone who has been touched by
this awful disease; spirited live and silent auctions; cake walks
and games; food, fun and sweet fellowship; and the over 1,200
luminaries that lit the track during the reading of all the names of
people Logan County love.
Thank you, Logan County! You're the best!
Karen Hargis
[Posted
May 21, 2007]
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