The 12th annual Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event was held on Saturday, May 27 from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Port Hardy Secondary School. Participants, who fundraised as teams leading up to the event, spent six hours walking around the track into the dark of the night. Kids played on the soccer field, there was delicious food donated for everyone to fill up on, DJ Jamie Keamo had tunes pumping through the crisp evening air, and there were numerous tents belonging to different community groups aligned on one side of the track.
Around 6:15 p.m. there was a group stretching demo led by Tara McCart from First Choice Fitness where everyone got limber, and then cancer survivors decked out in yellow shirts completed a Survivor Walk (one lap around the track holding the banner).
After the Survivor Walk finished, the rest of the participants joined in. Each team had to have someone on the track for the entire six hours.
Check out next week’s Gazette to see how much money was raised by the teams.
