beginning when for those viewers that don't know too much about the cancer society and if a person is diagnosed with cancer how can they help them how can they get help from the american cancer society cath oh that is so easy all they have to do is call our eight hundred number which i believe is going to be up on the screen but it's one eight hundred two two seven two three four five and those lines are open twenty four hours a day seven days a week and there are patients service representatives to talk to the patient or a family member or a neighbor or a friend acting on their behalf and we have many programs and services  calling then they can be together with the patient service representative decide which programs or services fit their needs the best well i know you helped me when my husband  matter of fact he had on the insured and it was it was getting quite expensive to be getting it all the time and i called and you sent me a couple cases of the insurer which helped me a great deal and there was a couple of things you did for me minutes oh sure i do know you about some of the specific programs for example if a woman is newly diagnosed with breast cancer we have trained volunteer breast cancer survivors who are addicts treatment at least still here and they have a clean bill bill of health from their physicians mentally and physically to be able to act as a support system and we will match as closely as possible the women ethnically just their lifestyles the type of surgery that they've had and we are always not only do we always want to get the word out to patients about our programs and services we also need volunteers so we are always looking to new breast cancer survivors to be trained we also have man to man which is for man for prostate what reach recovery is for women for breast and there is our look good feel better program we have a wonderful program we're lucky here in washington at least once a month we have a class license volunteers cosmetologists license cosmetologist dony third time to run the class and it's helping women going through treatment for any cut type of cancer with the changes that their hair their skin is going through they get wonderful donated kits and most importantly they are sitting around the table with other women who got up that morning and felt the same way they did and are going through the same emotions the class is close to the facilitators and the patien only there are guests at the class that way they can open up and really talk to each other and some actual friendships and comradeship happens at those classes there is also  medication help with gas cards these things depend on income guidelines other programs like which to recovery that i just talked about look good feel better they do not we also have our educational series i can cope and these can be accessed online or through community programs and events and there are thirteen different topics and a few of things like  feelings and sharing feelings and concerns money mariner's nutrition those topics nutrition money matters we can also hold those modules for the general public not just specifically for cancer patients and there are another program that is very important and works very well here in washington county is road to recovery this program connex cancer patients who need rides to cancer treatment with volunteers in the community that are willing to give their time their use automatically placed on any type of mailing list or donation or so the solicitation list absolutely not when a patient calls in to access our programs and services their information is never shared even within our organization for fund raising now if this patient is already involved in relay for life or death federal days then they are already on the income side of the mailing list but they will not get there everything ok margie i think maybe you will tell us a little bit something about relay for life and certainly the american cancer society really for life is a life changing event that gives everyone in a community across the globe literally across the globe or now and in countries all over the world doing relay for life but it gives people a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer to remember people who've lost their battle to cancer and to fight back against the disease at relay teams of people camped out at high schools as is the case in peter's township we will be there on may fifteenth and sixteenth for twenty four hours overnight but are actually will be there eighteen hours a lot of them are twenty four hours but they are overnight that is a hundred feature of a relay and they will take turns renay still walking around the track we do ask that one member of every team be on the track at all times to symbolize the fact that cancer never sleeps and that somebody with that diagnosis has to deal with it twenty four hours a day every day from the day they're diagnosed forward  you and you just feel like you're just part of everything in your giving out some information that would be helpful maybe for somebody someday and you never know you know it's right you do not ever now people always say why do you  say well i really from my mother who passed away in one thousand nine hundred two from pancreatic cancer i relay for all of the survivors that are present any given really anyone in the community that has cancer but i might be reeling from myself or one of my children because no one in the know who is going to be the face of cancer tomorrow so you know so little and believe you can tell us a little more about it itself we have hundreds of people that come out during the day and we invite to a community there's a lot of activities for all different age levels that if somebody wanted to become more involved there's many different ways they can do that first of all maybe they'd be interested in joining a team that's already established or maybe forming in their own team if they would like and if they want to then they would be able to call the eight hundred number or they can get on our website which will also be on the screen relay for life  or forward slash p a peters township t w p for the township part of it that way they could join online if they wanted team they could see what teams are already on maybe support one of those teams we have a committee of volunteers which is been growing wonderful group of people that if somebody would be interested in maybe coming out and helping they might want to help all day organize something maybe they have an idea for an activity or if they want to just come and help us set up cleanup or help me on a table the day of the event we would be happy to have some more volunteers join us it is a great group of people they might want to possibly have an opportunity for sponsorship businesses within the communities or even individuals within the community we do have various levels of sponsorship and that those who do sponsor above the a thousand dollars or more their names are on the back of the t shirts and every year the names the number of names keep growing on the back of our t shirt they also probably more importantly this is also a celebration with the survivors and so that anybody who is evening toward supper time we have a reception every year for our survivors there ichi invited to bring a caregiver with them we have a meal we usually have a speaker or some type of entertainment and then we have our special survivor lap and everybody who is not a survivor brings the trip back and just celebrates it claps for them and we also have our caregiver and then most of this then will lead into our  luminaire ceremony which is at nine o'clock at night ert at dusk depending upon what goes down which is wonderful the luminary ring the track and unfortunately the number of why it's just it's wonderful what you do it really is and it's so rewarding him everything is just it's too bad more people don't really come to see about that and we hope that more will come it's a way all ages from babies up to great grandparents everybody can come together it's a nice family event that is as i believe you have another  probably a good definition of that it's a depiction of how real life or life brings hope to a community it's really a demonstration of our determination and we hope that communities determination to end this disease i'm going to involved in this three years ago both my parents passed away from cancer of my next door neighbor and a dear friend of mine and so this year what we're doing as i said we hope to come unity will come out and join us the peters township public library's been gracious and letting us use  last i purpose room on the first floor of the library our show us here hope reception will be march thirtieth that's a tuesday evening and it will begin at seven thirty and some of things we will be doing now we do extend a special invitation to the you've probably seen on television some of the commercials we are the official sponsor of earth day so wonder and so everybody is welcome to come out and this is really our kickoff for a show i sure hope it will extend through the entire week and here's the part of where everybody in peter's township can become involved in this we want bike to paint peters township pople because you know purple is a color of passion really of resolve to find a cure for this disease so we're asking people and we hope everybody does this put you know tie a purple ribbon around your mailbox post the first week of april put out some purple flowers hopefully they'll be a lot of pretty purple pansies out you can put on your front porch you can decorate the entrance to your subdivisions maybe were signs honoring somebody who was you know a survivor of cancer or honoring lynn we will come back to you as soon as we have a break ok mean i didn't want you to think we forgot about you because we like to hear what you have to say about you're going to talk some more about the relay right there what is it part i've been sharing this relay this will be my fourth year this will be our sixth grade relay here and peters township and we have grown significantly in those years we started out with eleven teens i believe our first year and we are up has to surpass one hundred thousand this year we would like to make one hundred thousand five hundred dollars this year with thirty three teams as what we're hoping for there will be the youth from st  have them along what are they going to do i haven't heard everything that they're doing this year our theme is movies and each team is picked to move different movie that they'll be using for their fund raising our fourth decorating their this year really is the same weekend as the art festival here with the school district and we're going to do in our competition with children then we hope to use their art also in some way with the survivors in the survivors graham this year we have quite a few things going on i know at the high school that i believe there's a dance social that is being planned for the arts festival that  it's amazing the ideas that they used to come up with each year they are very creative group of people very energetic to it's great to see them there and and have them participating late many years has pleasant valle began in one nine hundred eighty five actually so we're celebrating twenty five years of relay for life and a man named gordon clapped and tacoma washington wanted to do something he's actually an oncology doctor and he wanted to do something different for cancer for it to raise money for research and for programs and so he decided he would walk and jog around a high school track for twenty four hours and he succeeded in doing that and the community was just simply amazed word got around and people came and they sat around you know the track and they watched him on and off for twenty four hours and from that scene that he planted in  five relay for life has grown so there are over five thousand community events across the nation now raising millions and millions of dollars so it was one man's simple resident business owner you know churches schools businesses everybody has a part to play in real life so that's what's really neat about an electric was to plant that seed to be out  though see kathleen i believe you want to say something about the road to recovery and yes like then we'll just have a general conversation among all of us have different thoughts about of them ok ok i just wanted to add about road to recovery and science said that's a volunteer program and we are fortunate here in washington county we do have fourteen drivers however we are looking for more volunteer drivers because the i'm only time you give there's no minimum we have one driver who can drive only during her lunch hour on monday through friday and that does work sometimes we have drivers who are retired who are willing to drive just about any day anywhere i was looking at the law for february that i just got of we gave eighteen rides and i think one driver gave about eight of those and that's what he chose to do and them a couple of the drivers gave one ride so we are always looking and i don't know why it's just a coincidence but over and the program right there is trying to build we have no try vors three of my drivers here in washington county are driving to be over to transport patients that's how dedicated these drivers are so if anyone is interested in just having a participating in this relate but it has been just a joy and an honor to work with the residents of peter count show they come together like no other community they give it their all and it's just a wonderful event and i truly  encourage and invite every peters township president to come out on may the fifteenth the opening ceremony is that too but you can come earlier and just walk around and watch people set up their campsites but i try to come and see what you know i've lost several people that i love very dearly to cancer this is a way to be with people who've experienced an experience that where you're from and you feel like you're doing something you know we're working toward finding a cure for cancer and this is been a wonderful was given because i had washington county the assignment of the peters relay and i have to say the three years ago we moved to peter's because we were so impressed with the community and how people just really come together and they really came together for this purpose for the american cancer society and our cause and i as all of us i don't think you can mean anyone anywhere who has not touched with cancer in some way and  for me to have you and to be able to relate some of the things that you've been and it's just wonderful and i hope that more people can see this and realize that there is something that everybody can do something and