festiveLOVE: make love not cancer

OK, so not everyone thinks of a fundraiser in support of cancer research as a festive event, but the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life in Edmonton is definitely something to celebrate! Cancer isn't prejudiced - it strikes adults and children or any colour at any time.  Statistically, 1450 Canadians die of cancer every week.  So each year, hundreds of volunteers and as many teams raise money, don costumes, erect campsites, and spend the night hoofing it around the track at Foote Field to Celebrate, Remember, and Fight Back.  Last year, Alberta/NWT events raised $5.5 million for the cause.  With honour, Team Clickin' Cancer's Butt has been invited back for Year Two getting team photos and whatever else we can shoot!  We had the official pre-planning meeting tonight... lemme tell ya, we are all have itchy trigger fingers to get to the Relay and click some SERIOUS cancer butt.

Relay for Life is still short a few event volunteers - organizer extraordinaire Christine McCourt sent out a plea this morning for anyone looking for a great way to pull and all-niter this Saturday night to contact Novalee Toronchuk for more info on what help is still needed: 780.437.8418.  If you can make it, stop on by the Team Clickin' Cancer's Butt site and say hello!

Are you a survivor, or has someone close to you passed away from cancer?  Want to get involved?  Please, share your story in the comments to raise awareness, or go to the CCS website and purchase a luminary or donate to any one of the worthy and dedicated teams, or at the very least bring us Tim Horton's coffee at about 3 a.m. - we'll be the ones wearing capes and cameras...