Want to make a difference? Walk in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. Join Magic 100.1 & Glenn Kalina at the Manahawkin Relay For Life, starting Friday, June 1st at 6pm at Southern Regional High School, 90 Cedar Bridge Road in Manahawkin. For more information, visit www.relayforlife.org/manahawkinnj.

Relay For Life is an overnight relay-style event where teams of people camp out around a track or path. Members of each team take turns walking around the track for the duration of the event. Food, games and activities provide entertainment and fundraising opportunities. Relay For Life is a family-friendly environment for the entire community. Because it’s a Relay, you’re not required to be there the entire time… but it’s so fun, you’ll probably find it hard to leave.

Relay starts with a Survivors Lap – an inspirational time when survivors are invited to circle the track together and help everyone celebrate the victories we’ve achieved over cancer.

After dark, we honor people who have been touched by cancer and remember loved ones lost to the disease during the Luminaria Ceremony. Candles are lit inside bags filled with sand, each one bearing the name of a person touched by cancer, and participants often walk a lap in silence.

Last, there is a Fight Back Ceremony, where we make a personal commitment to save lives by taking up the fight against cancer. That personal commitment may be to do something as simple as getting a screening test, quitting smoking, or talking to elected officials about cancer. By taking action, people are personally taking steps to save lives and fight back against a disease that takes too much.