L’Observateur / March 29, 1999

All cancer survivors will be honored on May 1 at 7 p.m. at East St. JohnHigh School’s Joe Keller Memorial Stadium by the American Cancer Society and other sponsors.

Relay for Life, a 12-hour event to raise monies to fight cancer, will begin with a Survivors Celebration and welcome from this year’s chairperson Laura Zaidain and inspirational words from River Parishes cancer survivors.

The celebration will be followed by the “Cancer Survivor Lap,” where cancer survivors will walk, run or wheelchair this first lap around the track. This lap sets the stage for the importance of each participant’scontribution to life as well as this event.

“The lap honors all cancer survivors, and we encourage anyone who has had a diagnosis of cancer to participate,” said Zaidain, a cancer survivor.

“They can be survivors one day, one week or many years.”As the survivors make the first lap their name, type of cancer diagnosis and survival time will be read as a way to honor them. After the first lap,the survivors are invited to a reception hosted by River Parishes Hospital in the survivor’s tent. All survivors are encouraged to stay and join in thefun and festivities.

Cancer survivor invitations can be picked up at the River Parishes Marketing Department, Suite 2, in the Medical Office Plaza in front of the hospital. Registration is a necessity for this first leg so that the name-reading can be made possible, Zaidain said.

For more information about Relay for Life, contact Bobbie Zaidain at 652- 5672, or (800) 882-6524.Back to Top

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