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American Cancer Society Relay For Life Kickoff Rally on October 1st at Clarksville’s Hilldale Baptist Family Life Center

Relay for LifeClarksville, TN – On October 1st, the American Cancer Society Relay For Life® campaign of Montgomery County will officially get underway as event volunteers and participants gather at the Hilldale Baptist Family Life Center for a kickoff rally to launch their fundraising efforts for the year.

In addition to a delicious meal and fellowship with some of Clarksville’s finest volunteers, the rally will feature speakers from the community who have benefited from funds raised at Relay, will honor cancer survivors, will recognize this past year’s participating teams and their contributions toward this effort, and the award-winning step team from West Creek High School will perform.

Montgomery County's 2013 Relay for Life
Montgomery County’s 2013 Relay for Life

This event also marks the first opportunity to register a team to participate in this year’s campaign and the overnight event to be held on May 16th, 2014 and during which this year’s campaign theme will be unveiled.

The world’s largest grassroots fundraising movement, Relay For Life, mobilizes communities throughout the country to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and provide participants with an opportunity to fight back against the disease.

Relay brings together friends, families, businesses, hospitals, schools, faith-based groups, people from all walks of life – all aimed at furthering the American Cancer Society’s vision of creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays.

Relay For Life began in 1985 with one man who walked and ran around a track for 24 hours and raised $27,000 for the American Cancer Society. This year, Relay For Life will take place in nearly 5,100 communities in the United States and 20 other countries and will raise funds to support the Society’s mission of saving lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by finding cures and fighting back.

Relay For Life Kickoff Rally will begin at 6:00pm on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 at the Hilldale Baptist Family Life Center, located at 250 Old Farmers Road, Clarksville, Tennessee

To join the Montgomery County Relay For Life effort, to register as a team of individual visit Montgomery County’s website at www.relayforlife.org/montgomerytn

For other questions contact Brittnye Farley at 931.220.1226 or Jason Pennington at 931.980.6058.

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