NEW life was breathed into Leeton’s Relay for Life event last year and there is more good news.
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The event will be going ahead next year and preparations are already well underway to ensure cancer patients and research can benefit from the funds raised in Leeton.
Organisers are planning to hold Relay for Life in October, 2018, pending approval of the date by Leeton Shire Council.
It comes as the 2016 was brought back to Leeton after many years of not being held in the town, raising $45,000 in the process.
Cancer Council NSW community relations co-ordinator Lily White was excited the event would again be held in Leeton.
“The Leeton Relay For Life volunteer organising committee have started discussing ideas and will be having their first committee meeting shortly to get the ball rolling for the 2018 relay,” she said. “A date for the relay will be confirmed and announced shortly.”
Relay for Life helps to raise funds for the Cancer Council, which assist with supporting patients, funding research projects and much more.
The 2016 Leeton event had about 400 community members taking part, with the organising committee hopeful of even more putting their hand up to relay next year. Ms White said the more people that participated would mean further help could be provided to those that needed it most. “Rural cancer patients still have a lower survival rates than their metropolitan counterparts,” she said.
“Access to specialists and treatment are some of the key factors for this. Removing barriers for rural cancer patients to seek the best available treatment is one of the reasons we relay.”
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