By participating in the American Cancer Society's RELAY FOR LIFE OF CULVER CITY you can affect everyone touched by cancer.  Relay For Life of Culver City will take place this Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20, on the football field  / track at Culver City High School. 

Relay For Life is a 24-hour community event where people form teams, collect donations, and then take turns walking or running around the track for 24 hours.  The idea is that since cancer never sleeps, neither will we for 24 hours.  Relay For Life is the largest fundraising movement in the world and the signature fundraiser of the American Cancer Society.  Last year it took place in more than 5,000 communities in the nation and 21 countries across the globe.

Teams set up campsites on the football field, and when you are not actually walking, you can relax at your campsite, visit with friends, enjoy music, live bands and other entertainment, knowing that you are making a difference in the fight against cancer.  As one cancer survivor stated, "Relay For Life turned the negative cancer experience into a positive one by participating in an event that allows me to make a difference in my fight against this disease"

Highlights of the Relay will include the Survivor's Lap at 9:00 am on Saturday, May 15, to start the event.  Later that evening, at 9:00 pm, there is the emotional Luminaria ceremony, where decorated bags lluminated with candles will line the track to honor cancer survivors and memorialize those who have lost their lives to cancer.  A bagpipe player will then leads a lap of remembrance around the track in memory of family and friends who are no longer here.  The candles will burn from  9:00 pm Saturday until the sun comes up Sunday morning.  Later in the evening there will be a "movie and pizza night." Then there will be a free pancake breakfast on Sunday morning provided by the Culver City Fire Department.

Last year the Relay For Life of Culver City raised more than $77,000.  This year they have set the ambitious goal of raising $100,000.

Join the fight against cancer by volunteering, forming a team, and fundraising.  Visit the website relayforlife.org/culvercityca or contact Event Chair, Linda Hirsh at culvercityrelayforlife@gmail.com for more information.