RELAY FOR LIFE

COOMERA Anglican College students are preparing for the annual Relay For Life.

The school has long been participating in the event and has raised more than $21,000 for the Cancer Council since 2010. The money is used for a range of vital Cancer Council services.

More than 80 students will participate in the event at the college campus on Saturday, October 28.

They will take turns walking in four groups during the night until the event ends at 9am the next day.

The college’s event coordinator Elton Stirling said the students see Relay for Life as a chance to “contribute to and support the wider community, while remembering and honouring loved ones lost to cancer’’.

He said the funds raised were “not only being used to support, assist and educate newly diagnosed cancer patients on their cancer journey but help fund groundbreaking research into new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat this disease”.

“Relay for Life gives students a chance to challenge themselves, get together with the rest of the community and fight back against the disease that claims so many lives.”

Members of the public are encouraged to get involved in Relay For Life and are also invited to donate to Coomera Anglican College’s fundraising efforts.