When you separate the fact from the mystery, all of a sudden you can sleep at night again. Now he is giving back to the organization that assisted him. He and Laurie Reynolds, senior vice president for community development for the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, are the co-chairpeople of the 1998 New Castle County Relay For Life. The 20-hour nonstop fundraiser will be held at Hodgson VoTech High School in Glasgow on Friday June 12, beginning at 6 p.m. During the event, cancer survivors and patients, corporations and community members will organize into about 100 teams of eight to 15 people.
Participants take turns walking, running or strolling relay-style around a track.
Among the areas benefiting from the proceeds are patient services, awareness programs, and research. And when it comes to cancer, there's little doubt Delaware could use all the help it can get. This year 3,800 Delawareans will discover they have cancer, according to American Cancer Society estimates. And 196 deaths of every 100,000 reported will be caused by cancer. Delaware's cancer mortality rate is the second highest in the nation.