LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – With Lake County’s annual Relay for Life event a month away, community members who are part of the crusade to put an end to cancer are out in force, raising funds and awareness.
Relay for Life takes place from 10 a.m. Saturday, May 18, to 10 a.m. Sunday, May 19, at Clear Lake High School in Lakeport.
Event committee member Stacey Folmar said relay teams are working right now on fundraising for the event.
“Our teams have so many wonderful and creative fundraising ideas going on this year,” said Folmar.
If you wake up tomorrow morning and see a purple saddle in your yard, don’t panic, said Folmar; it’s just the Relay For Life team Relay Riders saddle that has been moving around Lake County collecting donations.
She said the fundraiser is called “Don’t Be Saddled With Cancer” and it’s been going on for the last few weeks.
It will cost a fee to have it removed from the yard, just like it did with those who found pink plastic flamingos and a huge purple angel in their yards, she said.
Folmar said Relay for Life is an overnight event where participants come together to walk around a track, have lots of fun, camp out in tents and – most importantly – remember those they have lost to cancer and honor survivors.
Relay For Life is the largest nonprofit fundraising event in the world and has been for many, a life- changing experience.
For more information about this year’s event, or to sign up, visit http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLCY13CA?pg=entry&;fr_id=48945 .