2018 Relay for life

Page 50 2018 RELAY FOR LIFE MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JUNE 27, 2018 Scales said his cancer was dormant last year, but he has two CAT scans every year since it could return or stay away, but they must watch it. He is in fairly decent health, works all the time, and doesn’t look back. Besides taking laps around the course, students also went to one of several stations to learn about sun safety, dance, do Cosmic kids yoga, color pictures for the June 16 Relay for Life, (1993) try healthy foods, and slide down a blow-up slide. At the sun safety station (1986), students learned several myths about sun cancer such as sun damage not being possible on a windy, cloudy, or cold day; not being able to get burnt through a window; and people with dark skin not being at risk for skin cancer. They also learned that sunscreen should not be used to extend the amount of time spent in the sun. Students also learned signs of skin cancer such as asymmetrical spots, border spots, more than one shade of spots, and spots that have a large diameter. They would learn to “slip on a shirt, slap on some sunscreen, slap on a hat, and wrap on sunglasses” and experiment what happens with different types of SPF. At another station, students learned about what smoking does to lungs. The children were asked to jump, then plug their noses and try breathing through a straw because that is what cigarettes do to the lungs. They saw what a smoker’s lungs looked like, what healthy lungs looked like, (2018) and how hard it is for lungs to pump when one smokes, and learned that lungs can recover up to 97% in the years after someone stops smoking. Tonita Reifsteck, who has worked with the Relay for Life for many years, said that some people are now using a Juul Vaper, which is like smoking eight cigarettes at a time. Reifsteck said when she worked at a hospital she could always tell the moms who had smoked during their pregnancy because the pillows would turn yellow as the baby breathed on it. Angie Whiteman (2003) of the Coordinated Approach to Health (CATCH) program had children spin a wheel and then do whatever exercise they spun. Whiteman taught them movements they could do even when playing video games. At the dancing station, students did coordinated dancing movements (2001) following along with a Go Noodle video. At the Yoga station (2025) students learned and practices several yoga positions. At the bouncy house students could climb and then slide down a blow-up slide (2011). To practice healthy eating, students were also able to sample fresh pears at one station (2019). All the day’s activities helped support the upcoming Relay for Life, which was held Saturday, June 16th from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. inside the gym at Lincoln College.