2018 Relay for life

2018 RELAY FOR LIFE MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JUNE 27, 2018 Page 49 cancer and one of 18 females will hear they have cancer. He said that would be about one out of every person in each class will have cancer. Allen said as we walk and play today, everything is in the name of helping people try to raise awareness for cancer and try to find ways to cure cancer. Students at both schools had been participating in a coin war for the last three weeks. Adams raised $150. Mrs. Dietrich and Mr. Allen set the goal for Northwest at $500, but students passed that amount in four days. They kept raising the goal and finally, students had raised over $1,500 and Allen expected the amount to reach $1,700 by the end of the day. Allen said all the money would be going to the Relay for Life and would help cancer patients with transportation needs to get to the hospital, help them if they need to stay in a hotel during treatment, and help with treatment. Allen said the overall winner of the coin war was Mrs. Allsup’s class with 10,373 points. When it was time for the relay segment, Mr. Allen called up the cancer survivors, which included four school staff. Survivors were given flowers and asked to lead the children in the first lap around the course. One survivor was Royce Scales. In 2012, Scales had a three-pound malignant tumor removed from his intestine. Scales said he is one of about 2,000 people with this cancer and he went to Houston, Texas to sign up for a research study. Continued u