Relay For Life is a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American Cancer Society. Anson County Relay for Life will be held on May 2&3, 2007. Everyone in today’s society has been affected by cancer in some way. Sometimes cancer even reaches those we find most precious…our children! It is so hard to be a kid today even without adding something as horrible as cancer. Making it even harder is going through treatments and dealing with the loss of your hair. However, the nonprofit organization Locks of Love is making great strives at giving children battling cancer a normal childhood.

Locks of Love collects hair that people donate in order to make hair pieces for children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments and other long term medical hair loss. Anyone can donate their hair the only guidelines are

Hair should be a minimum of 10 inches to be used as a hair piece or a minimum of 5 inches to be sold at market and the money earned will go to Locks of Love.
Hair should be clean and dry.
Hair CAN BE colored or permed but not chemically damaged.

We are urging people to commit now to giving their hair to Locks of Love in May. A booth will be set up at Relay For Life on Friday, May 2nd from 7pm to 9pm, and a stylist will be onsite cutting hair for this worthwhile cause. For more information about Anson County’s Relay For Life, please call 704-465-9009 or go to www.ansonrelay.org <http://www.ansonrelay.org/>; .

To date, we have raised $80,000! Because of you, we are closer to finding a cure for cancer!

Opening Welcome & Introductions ~ Misty Harris
6:00 Anson High School JROTC to Present Colors
National Anthem ~ Deborah Carroll
Invocation
6:15 Lighting of the Torch
Survivor's Lap ~ Jilla Gathings
6:25 Poem ~ Paula Tice
6:30 Parade of Teams ~ Ericka Chaney
7:00 Saddle Creek (Country Band)
8:00 Presentation of Awards ~ "Spirit of Relay"
Luminaries will no longer be sold
8:05 Morven Church of God of Prophecy Praise Dancers
8:30 Caroline Keller (Christian Music)
8:55 Make announcement - Lights out in five minutes
9:00 Locks of Love' Raffle Winner Announced
Luminaries ~ lights out
Lighting of the Flame of Hope ~ Sandra Pliescott
Everyone walks a silent lap in Honor/Memory
9:15 Memory Lap for Karen Currie ~ Lilesville Elem. Team Captain
Principal of Lillesville Elementary ~ Marty Godwin to speak
9:30 New Arrivals (Gospel Music)
10:00 Caroline Keller (Christian Music)
10:30 Matthew Gibson (R&B Music)
11:00 Saddle Creek (Country Music)
12:00 Team Fundraising Money to be turned in
12:30 Setup for Flat Out Bluegrass
1:00 Flat Out Bluegrass (Bluegrass Music)
2:00 Music Provided by Pure Sound Entertainment
3:00 Music Provided by Pure Sound Entertainment
4:00 Music Provided by Pure Sound Entertainment
5:00 Final Lap
5:15 Money totals to be announced
5:30 Breakfast will be served
5:45 Closing prayer
6:00 Tear Down & Clean up

Is Anson County being invaded by flamingos?

No, it just a Relay For Life fundraiser that will be going on from now until the first of May. CMH's Relay For Life Team has decorated a tacky flamingo and will be placing it in businesses and residents yards that live OUTSIDE the city limits of Wadesboro. Once you have been "attacked" by the tacky flamingo, you must make a donation to CMH's Relay For Life team to have this bird removed. If you would like to request the flamingo be put in someone's yard, please call Matt Morgan at CMH at 704-694-6213 ext 2430.

A prayer shawl will be raffled off in April as a fundraiser for CMH's Relay For Life Team. Raffle tickets are $5, and are on sell now at CMH, Lacy's and Fancy Crafts. A picture of the shawl is also on display at the places listed above. This prayer shawl was hand crafted by Anson County native Mararuth Cox with lots of faith, love and hope. This shawl has been blessed with four beautiful prayers. While knitting this shawl, Ms. Cox recited these prayers, including one from Psalm 139:13-14 "You created every part of me, knitting me in my Mother's womb. For such handiwork, I praise you. Awesome this great wonder!". The drawing for this lovely shawl will be held on Monday, April 23rd. All of the proceeds from this fundraiser will help in finding a cure for cancer. If anybody would like to purchase a prayer shawl or if you have any questions about the raffle, please contact Nichole Cox 704-694-6213 ext 2267.

Nineteen Ansonians are helping preserve an American tradition.

Each year, a group of local quilters carefully crafts an enormous quilt from scratch, according to Cynthia Little of Wadesboro, and the quilt is later the prize of a drawing benefiting the cancer research efforts of Anson County Relay for Life.
The group meets at First United Methodist Church in Wadesboro, said Little, and in less than a week, a beautiful new quilt is created.
Thursday morning, Little said she began quilting when she was 4 years old, learning from her late grandmother, Bessie Springer of Cedar Hill.
“Nowadays I quilt alongside my mother, Lina Hildreth,” she said.