Relay for Life event schedule announced

The American Cancer Society’s community-led Relay For Life events and a college campus event are planned across Connecticut. Volunteers are needed to make every event a success.

Residents from each community can help attack cancer from every angle through planning, fundraising, set up, promotion and marketing, securing sponsors, organizing a cancer survivor reception, planning opening ceremonies, event logistics, security and entertainment.

“Whether you can offer a few hours or can help throughout the spring, the American Cancer Society has a role for you to become involved in this community movement,” said Alexis Maliga of the American Cancer Society.

From April through June local communities will be celebrating cancer patients in treatment and beyond; remembering those lost to cancer and fighting back against cancer.

The 2018 Relay For Life events include: Litchfield County and Bethany, Orange, Woodbridge: May 19; Bristol: June 8; Ellington/ Tolland County: May 19; Fairfield and Fairfield University: April 13; Farmington Valley: May 19; Greater Danbury: June 9; Haddam/Killingworth: June 23; Hamden/North Haven: June 9; Meriden/Wallingford: May 18; Middletown: June 2; Naugatuck Valley (Shelton): June 2; New Fairfield: June 2; Newington: June 15; Newtown: June 16; North Central CT (Suffield): June 3; Northeastern CT (Brooklyn): May 19; Plainville: June 2; South Windsor/Vernon: June 8; Southeastern CT (Norwich): June 2; Southington: June 1; Stratford: June 23; Waterbury: June 2; West Hartford: June 9; Wilton: June 8.

Founded by Dr. Gordy Klatt in Washington in 1985, the Relay For Life movement is the world’s largest fundraising event to save lives from cancer.

According to the society, last year, 2.7 million participants in the U.S. raised more than $279 million at more than 3,500 events to help the American Cancer Society attack cancer in dozens of ways, each of them critical to achieving a world without cancer – from developing breakthrough therapies to building supportive communities, from providing empowering resources to deploying activists to raise awareness.

Funds raised support the American Cancer Society 24/7 cancer help line and free rides to chemo. By joining the Relay For Life event, you can help attack cancer from every angle.

For information, visit www.RelayForLife.org or call 800.227.2345.