From noon to midnight Saturday, hundreds of cancer survivors, caregivers, volunteers and community members will participate in the annual
The relay will take place at Ray Dennison Memorial Field at Fort Lewis College.
The opening ceremony will be at noon, and a luminaria ceremony will be at 9 p.m.
Other activities include a costume contest, human Foosball, a silent auction, a “lil’ superhero showdown,” food and more.
The Relay For Life movement is the world’s largest fundraising event to fight every cancer in every community, with 4 million participants in 6,000 events worldwide in 2015.
For more information about the Realy for Life, contact Lisa Bade at Lisa.bade@cancer.org.
State Sen. Irene Aguilar will speak about ColoradoCare, Amendment 69, at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Aguilar’s presentation, “Medicare for All,” will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Drive.
Amendment 69, which has already qualified to be on the November ballot, would establish a “Medicare for All” statewide health care system for all Colorado residents.
Aguilar is a physician on the board at Denver Health.
For more information, contact Sherry Plowman at 553-9550.
The La Plata County Humane Society received 35,000 pounds of natural Blue Buffalo dog/puppy and cat/kitten food from Best Friends Animal Society on Wednesday.
The delivery, which amounted to 30 pallets, was unloaded with the help of numerous volunteers. The donated food will save the Humane Society thousands of dollars this year. The Humane Society will also share the food with other local animal-rescue programs and shelters.
Best Friends Animal Society has a waiting list of animal shelters that have requested similar pet food donations. Best Friends runs the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals in Kanab, Utah.
By partnering with rescue groups and shelters nationwide since 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals killed in American shelters from 17 million to 4 million annually.
For more information, contact Chris Nelson of the La Plata County Humane Society at 749-5798 or chris@lpchumanesociety.org.
Herald Staff
