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Relay for Life, to honour cancer fighters, set for June 10 mybancroftnow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mybancroftnow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
June 29, 2021 By Kristena Schuut-Moore People may be physically and socially distanced, but the North Hastings community still came together in its own supportive way to help push the Bancroft Relay for Life past its fundraising goal. Instead of the traditional trips around the Millennium Park track, participants relayed in their own way leading up to June 12, when the Canadian Cancer Society hosted a virtual hour long relay on their website, Facebook page, YouTube page and YesTV. The Bancroft organizers also broadcast the virtual relay on their Facebook page. This allowed people to watch the traditional events, such as honouring the participants of hope and the luminary ceremony. After the virtual relay ended the Bancroft relay organizing committee gathered the 80 luminaries that were purchased in Bancroft and laid them out in Millennium Park and walked the track for a traditional luminary walk, to honour those represented in the lumi ....
It’s an ambitious goal for this year’s Relay for Life Organizer Flo VanderMeer wants Bancroft to be in the top 5 national fundraising teams at this year’s virtual Relay for Life. Donations can still be made until April 30th to push the team into the top 5, with Vandermeer saying they are close to cracking that level. In addition, Audrey Mackay, one of the top contributors in years past, is looking to become the top contributor nationally. Vandermeer says that she is able and willing to take as many donations as possible. Vandermeer believes that Team Bancroft can reach such high accolades because the community has been able to hit high goals in the past. The Town has come up time and time again because so many people have been affected by cancer. VanderMeer herself lost her father to the disease, and it was her motivation for helping get the Bancroft Relay for Life going. ....