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Are You Ready for Relay?

Relay For Life of Stoneham is June 11-12 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. at Stoneham High School. Open to the public until 11 p.m.

You are invited to join hundreds of participants at this community event to celebrate cancer survivors, remember those lost to the disease, and take action to finish the fight against cancer. There is still time to register for the complimentary survivor dinner at 6:30 p.m. If you are a cancer survivor, don't miss out! Angelo's Ristorante of Stoneham will be generously sponsoring and catering the dinner again this year.  Please register now on our website at www.relayforlife.org/stonehamma.

One of the highlights of Relay is the luminaria ceremony at 9:00 p.m. Candles are lit inside of personalized bags and are placed around the Relay track as glowing tributes. You can remember a loved one lost to cancer and honor those battling the disease by dedicating luminaria. You may also submit the name and photo of your loved one which will be displayed in a slide show during the luminaria ceremony.  If you would like to include your loved ones name and photo during the slide show and on the fight back wall (during the fight back boxing demo) please email photos to Alyssa Norton at alyssanorton13@gmail.com.

We will be collecting canned food items which will be placed inside the luminaria bags to hold them down.  The canned food items will later be donated to Stoneham Food Pantry.  Please bring a canned food item to Relay and drop it off at the registration tables.

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Some of the fun and family-friendly onsite activities this year will include a photo booth, corn hole tournament, video gaming truck, fast pitch baseball machine, and a bounce house.  Don't forget to visit our raffle tent! The Stoneham High School booster club snack shack will be open from 4 p.m. until 11 p.m. Enjoy music from DJ Buono. We hope you can join us  to help knock out cancer.

To register for Relay For Life of Stoneham or for more information, please visit relayforlife.org/stonehamma.

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