Relay for life! By: Jordan Baxter

Relay for life! Students, teachers, and others walk the track to support the fight against cancer. It's an over night fundraiser to raise money for research and programs of the American Cancer Society. The weather was slightly cloudy, chilly, and a little breezy on April 15th at the track by the FSU baseball field. All greek life came out to help support the cause and to help raise money. Kids were running around the track playing and having a good time. What made it twice as good was that there were people offering free sandwiches to anyone running around the track! Even a pick up soccer tournament  was being held in the middle of the track. (Pick up meaning anybody can play.) The smell of BBQ filled the air accompanied by a great selection of music to keep the entertainment alive. I sat down and had an interview with FSU’s very own Kelly Lake who was on team Delta Delta. Kelly told me that there are about 30 people on team DD, which was about the same number for the rest of the teams. Even though team DD only plans on staying until ten P.M. they still had a great range of activities planned for relay. One of these plans included a ho-la-hoop competition, which was only 50 cents to enter! The kids laughed and danced around with their ho-la-hoops in hopes of being the winner of the competition. I asked Kelly, what is your job tonight for relay; and she replied, “ I was doing the ho-la-hoop competition, all money goes to relay for life to show our support.” I also asked Kelly what her favorite part of relay was. “I like how it brings the whole school together it makes us all closer."

Kids were lining up left and right to get to Ms. Jerica Bennett’s kissing booth which was right on the track!  One question that came to mind was what made you choose the kissing booth? “Well I didn’t (Bennett says), originally it was my friend but he was not making any money so we switched and now are actually starting to see some cash!” Jerica was on team Frost  which had about 30 team members. She was also at relay to help support her aunt, who has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. To learn more about relay for life you can visit the webpage.