The rules for membership are simple:
Add the code to your blogroll. Just follow the link provided in this post or our cancer sucks link can be found in the sidebar above Blogroll.
Make a post on your blog supporting research to cure cancer and to announce your membership in this worthy fight.
Make a comment on this post giving the cancer research or charity you will support annually. The amount of your gift is entirely up to you, but the more you can afford, the better it will be.
Non bloggers can participate too by making a comment and listing the cancer research facility/organization or charity you will support annually.
Here are some suggested research organizations and charities: National Cancer Institute, The Lung Cancer Alliance, The Cancer Research Institute, The American Cancer Society, Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation of America/Cancer Research Foundation of America. Or, your favorite what ever it is.
Add the code to your blogroll. Just follow the link provided in this post or our cancer sucks link can be found in the sidebar above Blogroll.
Make a post on your blog supporting research to cure cancer and to announce your membership in this worthy fight.
Make a comment on this post giving the cancer research or charity you will support annually. The amount of your gift is entirely up to you, but the more you can afford, the better it will be.
Non bloggers can participate too by making a comment and listing the cancer research facility/organization or charity you will support annually.
Here are some suggested research organizations and charities: National Cancer Institute, The Lung Cancer Alliance, The Cancer Research Institute, The American Cancer Society, Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation of America/Cancer Research Foundation of America. Or, your favorite what ever it is.
Here is my post, copied from aunt karen’s comment today. It is to the relay she annually walks for that I will donate, Terry County Relay for Life sponsored through the American Cancer Society.
aunt karen said...
De'on,
I haven't heard of the cancer sucks thing, you'll have to fill me in. Our event is called the "Terry County Relay for Life". The American Cancer Society gets people to plan and host these relays all over the country this time of year. The Relay Committee (also volunteers from your county) then go around and try to get everyone to get relay teams together, businesses and individuals, to raise money to go to the American Cancer Society. This money not only goes towards research, it also goes to patients and their families to help with getting them back and forth for treatments and any kind of support that they may need. The idea of the Relay is that we take one night out of our lives, 12 hours, to support cancer patients and survivors, because they and their families don't get a night or day off from their battle of this disease. Our team was called the Terry County Courthouse team. There were also about 10 other teams this year that participated, First Bank of Brownfield, Sundown State Bank, Church of Christ, Best Western Motel, plus some teams made up of just individuals. We also have a lot of Corporate Sponsors, businesses that donate money and services for the Relay. United Supermarket donated free water stations set up all over the track for our walkers, and at midnight, Pizza Hut comes out and donates free pizza for all of the walkers. Your team is not walking for just one individual, we walk for everyone going through cancer, patients, families and survivors. Your team is given a baton, and the idea is to keep someone from your team out on the track at all times, keeping your baton going all night. It helps to have a big team, so that you can switch out. We also plan events to go on all night to keep people there. This year the theme of our Relay was "Around the World in 12 Hours". Each of the teams picked a country to represent. Our team was Jamaica (USA was already taken, it was the first one picked, of course) so we decorated our camp site to reflect our country. We decorated our canopy to look like a grass tiki hut, we had 6 ft blow up palm trees and beach chairs, we had a poster board made of the Jamaican flag and we had bananas and coconuts everywhere! This is also a competition between teams because they judge your campsite and they also judge your baton. You are supposed to decorate your baton to reflect your country. Ours was made into a palm tree with colorful birds and bananas and coconuts, but team USA (First Bank of Brownfield) beat us, which is understandable, you can't hardly beat the USA! Due to the storm, the camp site judging didn't happen. Then, events are scheduled to go on all night to keep people there, like karaoke, line dancing, water balloon fights, tug of war between teams, noodle races and we have a luminary service where survivors and people who died of cancer are honored. Of course, this year, we didn't get to do all of these things that we had planned because of the weather. We did get to have a passport game, where your team posts a cancer fact question at your camp site. Your team is given a passport and someone from your team goes to all of the other camps and if you answer the question correctly, you got a stamp on your passport for that country. The team with the most stamps on their passport gets to be first in line for Pizza Madness at midnight when the free pizza comes. Martin and Julie's daughter Emmy and her friend Lexy were our teams passport players. They had a blast and got every one of the cancer fact questions right and had a stamp from all of the countries on their passport. I am so disappointed that we had to stop the relay so early, because of the dangerous weather, so there was no Pizza Madness. The 18,000.00 dollars that I spoke of was the total that all of the teams and corporate sponsors collected this year, so even though we didn't get to go all night, it was still worth it.
aunt karen said...
De'on,
I haven't heard of the cancer sucks thing, you'll have to fill me in. Our event is called the "Terry County Relay for Life". The American Cancer Society gets people to plan and host these relays all over the country this time of year. The Relay Committee (also volunteers from your county) then go around and try to get everyone to get relay teams together, businesses and individuals, to raise money to go to the American Cancer Society. This money not only goes towards research, it also goes to patients and their families to help with getting them back and forth for treatments and any kind of support that they may need. The idea of the Relay is that we take one night out of our lives, 12 hours, to support cancer patients and survivors, because they and their families don't get a night or day off from their battle of this disease. Our team was called the Terry County Courthouse team. There were also about 10 other teams this year that participated, First Bank of Brownfield, Sundown State Bank, Church of Christ, Best Western Motel, plus some teams made up of just individuals. We also have a lot of Corporate Sponsors, businesses that donate money and services for the Relay. United Supermarket donated free water stations set up all over the track for our walkers, and at midnight, Pizza Hut comes out and donates free pizza for all of the walkers. Your team is not walking for just one individual, we walk for everyone going through cancer, patients, families and survivors. Your team is given a baton, and the idea is to keep someone from your team out on the track at all times, keeping your baton going all night. It helps to have a big team, so that you can switch out. We also plan events to go on all night to keep people there. This year the theme of our Relay was "Around the World in 12 Hours". Each of the teams picked a country to represent. Our team was Jamaica (USA was already taken, it was the first one picked, of course) so we decorated our camp site to reflect our country. We decorated our canopy to look like a grass tiki hut, we had 6 ft blow up palm trees and beach chairs, we had a poster board made of the Jamaican flag and we had bananas and coconuts everywhere! This is also a competition between teams because they judge your campsite and they also judge your baton. You are supposed to decorate your baton to reflect your country. Ours was made into a palm tree with colorful birds and bananas and coconuts, but team USA (First Bank of Brownfield) beat us, which is understandable, you can't hardly beat the USA! Due to the storm, the camp site judging didn't happen. Then, events are scheduled to go on all night to keep people there, like karaoke, line dancing, water balloon fights, tug of war between teams, noodle races and we have a luminary service where survivors and people who died of cancer are honored. Of course, this year, we didn't get to do all of these things that we had planned because of the weather. We did get to have a passport game, where your team posts a cancer fact question at your camp site. Your team is given a passport and someone from your team goes to all of the other camps and if you answer the question correctly, you got a stamp on your passport for that country. The team with the most stamps on their passport gets to be first in line for Pizza Madness at midnight when the free pizza comes. Martin and Julie's daughter Emmy and her friend Lexy were our teams passport players. They had a blast and got every one of the cancer fact questions right and had a stamp from all of the countries on their passport. I am so disappointed that we had to stop the relay so early, because of the dangerous weather, so there was no Pizza Madness. The 18,000.00 dollars that I spoke of was the total that all of the teams and corporate sponsors collected this year, so even though we didn't get to go all night, it was still worth it.
SFM, I'm glad to hear that ya'll are okay after the storm. Lots of little kids at the relay were scared too, when that wind came through.
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