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Local News - April 2002 |
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Relay for Life begins Friday 62 teams signed on for event From staff reports April 29, 2002 - Preparations are underway for this year’s Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society’s largest fundraiser. The annual event begins Friday night and lasts through Saturday morning. Participants have spent weeks collecting pledges for the laps they will make around the Lincolnton High School stadium track. Organizers hope to bring in $150,000 this year. Last year, the Lincolnton event raised $138,000. The event, which came to Lincolnton in 1995, has become a community tradition. Some 62 teams have signed up representing businesses, churches and families. While walkers make laps, other team members will work fundraising food and activity booths set up inside the track. The event begins at 6 p.m. when Tabatha Kirby sings the national anthem. Cancer survivors will walk a lap at 7 p.m. as part of the official opening ceremony. At 9 p.m., luminaries circling the field will be lit. Community members pay to have a candle lit in honor of cancer survivors and in memory of those who died from cancer. Area dance troupes and other performers will provide entertainment through the evening. Other activities include a male beauty pageant and wild pajama contest. Closing ceremonies begin at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. A final victory lap is at noon. Special parking near the stadium entrance is available to cancer survivors. Church teams include Hulls Grove Baptist, Bethphage Lutheran, Salem Lutheran and United Church of Christ, First United Methodist, North Brook Baptist, Pisgah United Methodist, Salem Baptist, Emanuel United Church of Christ, Messiah United Methodist, St. Dorothy’s Catholic, David Memorial Baptist, Long Shoals Wesleyan, Reeps Grove United Methodist, Holy Cross Lutheran, Mount Vernon Baptist, First Presbyterian, New Vision Ministries, Marvin United Methodist, Rhyne Heights United Methodist, Riverview Baptist, Emmanuel Lutheran, Trinity Lutheran, Battleground Elementary, Antioch Baptist, Gainsville Baptist and Southside Baptist. Business teams include Wal-Mart, Peoples Bank, Home Medical Systems, Timken, Lincolnton Medical Group, BB&T, Lincoln Times-News, Steele Rubber Products, Belk, Lincolnton Animal Hospital, Bi-Lo, Griffin Buick Pontiac, Turn 4 Pizza, Spoons Restaurant, Arcadia Surgical, North State Medical Group, R-Anell Housing Group, LLC and First Charter Bank. School teams include Love Memorial Elementary, West Lincoln High, Pumpkin Center Middle, Northbrook Elementary, Lincolnton High, Lincoln Charter, West Lincoln Middle, Lincoln County School of Technology, Union Elementary and Battleground Elementary. Other teams include Survivors, Allyson Goins and Friends, Whiteside Family, Tiahna’s Team, Foster Children of Lincoln County and Carter Family.
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