2019 Relay for Life

2019 RELAY FOR LIFE MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JUNE 19, 2019 Page 77 Joining Ms. Dietrich at the front of the room was her son John David. She said that over the years he has become very invested in raising money for Relay for Life, and has participated in Relay events when he was a student at Adams and now as a student at Northwest. She called on John David to assist with the recognition of survivors. Before recognizing the survivors present, who work in the schools, Ms. Dietrich asked for a show of hands, how many students knew someone who has or has had cancer? A lot of hands went up, the majority. However, Ms. Dietrich said that in the room, every hand should be going up because there are cancer survivors working at both Adams and Northwest Schools and those are people that all the children know. Left to right: Debbie Freed, Laura Ash, Kayla Finley and Matt Knight Then she introduced the school survivors while John David handed each stems of purple flowers. From Northwest faculty were Laura Ash, Debbie Freed and Matt Knight. There were no faculty survivors present from Adams School, but there was one special person who was recognized. Kayla Finley is a parent of an Adams School kindergarten student. John David presented her with flowers as well. After the recognitions, it was then time for the students to split up and go to a variety of activities both outside and indoors. Outside, students had three activity opportunities including spinning the exercise wheel. The wheel was spun and when it stopped on a particular exercise, the students were to participate in the callisthenic. The first one was jumping jacks and the next one was lunges. Some students didn’t know what a lunge was, so their instructor led them in the exercise until they were all able to get it down pat. The idea of exercise plays well into cancer prevention because studies show that Continued n