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Steps Toward A Cure

Relay for Life is an 18-hour event held in communities throughout the country. Participants take turns walking around a track through all hours of the night to raise money to fund cancer research and create awareness about this deadly disease. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society.

This year’s Relay for Life events in Lake and Sumter counties are as follows:

• Leesburg/Lady Lake: April 5 at Leesburg High School

• Mount Dora/Sorrento: April 11 at Mount Dora High School

• The Villages of Hope: April 11 at Wildwood Community Building

• South Lake: April 25 at the Living Well Center

• Sumter County: May 2 at Lake-Sumter State College’s Sumterville campus

• Eustis/Tavares: May 3 at Tavares High School

• North Lake: May 17 at Cadwell Park

For more information, please call 352.326.9599.

DID YOU KNOW?

Relay for Life began in 1985. Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon in Tacoma, Wash., spent 24 hours walking and running around a track at the University of Puget Sound. He completed 83 miles and raised $27,000.

Source: cancer.org