Grand Island kicks off Relay For Life 2010

Grand Island Dispatch, January 15, 2010

Relay For Life Co-chair Mary Dunbar-Daluisio speaks during Tuesday’s kickoff
event in the Grand Island High School auditorium. (photo by Larry Austin)

Grand Island’s 2010 Relay For Life campaign for the American Cancer Society began this week by looking forward with a kickoff rally and a look back at successes in 2009.

The 2009 Grand Island Relay had 78 teams, with more than 100 cancer survivors and 735 team participants. The 2009 total of funds raised, $142,445, was the second highest in the history of the Grand Island event and pushed the grand total since 2003 near the $700,000 mark.

At the rally, held in the Grand Island High School auditorium, Jane Dent of the American Cancer Society noted other Grand Island Relay achievements:

•Through the leadership of Nancy Webb, Grand Island had 200 participants register for the ACS’s third Cancer Prevention Study.

•GI had the highest number of Relay All Stars on all the WNY relays. All Star is a participant who raises $2,500.

Relay All Stars included: Amanda Jordan – $5,900; Robert Duggan – $4,100; Robert Cooke – $3,500; Dan McBride – $3,000; Ben Tomkins – $2,500; Emily Sommer – $2,500; Mary Dunbar Daluisio – $2,500; and Donna Tomkins – $2,500.

Grand Island Relay For Life

Past Fundraiser Totals