Relay For Life^® of Dearborn
May 3rd - 4th, 2008
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center

Thank you Dearborn!

Our community came together to raise over $120,000 as of Monday, May 12th!
(we're working on catching our website total up to our actual money raised!)

During our Relay For Life our Dearborn community:

• CELEBRATED the lives of 101 survivors and 81 caregivers.
• REMEMBERED nearly 1100 loved ones who have faced cancer.
• FOUGHT BACK by making 81 pledges to save a life from cancer.

 Dearborn, you once again embraced the spirit of Relay and touched many lives.  Thank You!

We have Teams: 48 Dollars Raised: $103,249.94 Participants: 604 Teams: 48 ! 

You can donate to our 2008 Relay through August 31,
so there's still time to reach our $135,000 goal.        

Thank you to our awesome Relay Planning Committee, our Team Captains and Teams, Mayor Jack O'Reilly and the City of Dearborn, the Dearborn Recreation Department, our sponsors, and all the businesses and community members that support our efforts!

Hey Dearborn, Make MI Air Smokefree!
(see Dearborn Relay News below for details)

                        Thank you to the Dearborn bd's mongolian barbeque
            for pledging to become Smokefree as of our May 3 Relay For Life!  

It's about being a community that takes up the fight.

Relay For Life is a time for Dearborn to come together as a community to Celebrate our survivors, Remember those we have lost to cancer, and to Fight Back against a diseases that takes too much from too many of us.   As always, our community did a great job coming together in 2008!

We honored 101 survivors and 81 caregivers during our opening lap and our Survivor & Caregiver Reception.  Hundreds of people came out for the day to be a part of our event.  We reached out to hundreds more people in our community prior to Relay through speaking engagements, local cable shows, local newspapers and other avenues.  Our 47 teams, comprised of over 600 registered participants, combined to raise over $117,400, with more to come.

The funds raised through our Relay For Life will help the American Cancer Society work toward their mission of eliminating cancer as a major health issue and will support much-needed services in our community. Thanks in part to the donations from Relay For Life and other events, the Society is saving lives, helping those touched by cancer, and empowering people to fight this disease all over the world and right here in Dearborn.

Please consider being involved in our 2009 Relay For Life of Dearborn!  We would love to have you on our Planning Committee, as a team captain or as part of a team.   For information, please contact Anna Agustin at 248.663.3411 or annalisa.agustin@cancer.org. 

 View our photos and videos page to get a feel for what happens at our Relay. 

We hope you will choose to be a part of our 2009 Relay For Life of Dearborn!

Dearborn Relay News

ACS Updates

Dearborn, Make MI Air Smokefree!
Hey Dearborn businesses, at our Relay we recognized 35 Dearborn businesses that are Smokefree.  Our Dearborn bd's mongolian barbeque pledged to become Smokefree starting on our May 3 Relay For Life date!  We are hoping more Dearborn businesses will join them.  This initiative is being supported by Mayor Jack O'Reilly and State Representative Gino Polidori. 

If your business is currently Smokefree or is willing to become Smokefree, please email rfldearborn@gmail.com.  Let's have Dearborn ahead of the rest of the State, and ahead of the Senate, and leading the charge for a Smokefree Michigan!

2008 Relay For Life of Dearborn! 
Our 2008 Relay continues to grow after our big year in 2007!  We have 47 teams this year, up from 37 in 2007. 

We are looking for volunteers to join our Award Winning Planning Committee; visit the Committee page for more info. 

Special pages for you!
Now that the 2008 Dearborn Relay Website is live we are working to add lots of useful information for our Dearborn community. Sign up. Explore all of the menu links at left. Be sure to check out our Schedule of Events - to see what fundraisers and Relay meetings should be on your calendar, and our  Team Tools page - if you've got a question, the answer is probably there (or will be soon!).

Congratulations on an Incredible 2007 Relay!  
The final results are in for the 2007 Relay For Life of Dearborn: We raised $119,358!  That was more than $50,000 over our goal and a 106% increase over 2006.

Our Relay was also honored by the American Cancer Society with several Great Lakes Division and National awards (see more below).  Most importantly we reached an amazing number of people and, hopefully, made a difference in their lives by giving them a way to fight back.  Awesome job, Dearborn! 

“FIGHT BACK through research!   THIS YEAR, selected Relay event(s) in our community are offering the unique opportunity to participate first-hand in a landmark new study, the Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3).The American Cancer Society will be enrolling people into CPS-3, a long-term study that will help researchers better identify the lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer. Please spread the word and visit the Cancer Prevention Study-3 website to find an enrollment location near you and for more information about how to participate in research today for a cancer free tomorrow!”  

RelayForLife.org Fight Back Page 
The Fight Back page gives you ideas and examples of how you can fight back agains cancer 365 days a year

Mission Matters  April Issue  Cancer Prevention Study-3 Bringing research to Relay Research today for a cancer-free tomorrow.  What if you could make it so just one family never had to hear the words "you have cancer?"  What if you could personally participate in research that could help determine factors that cause or prevent cancer?  What if that research ultimately leads to the elimination of cancer as a major health problem for future generations?

ACS Report Calls for Greater Prevention Efforts 
US cancer death rates are still dropping, but until more Americans adopt healthy lifestyle habits and follow screening recommendations, the gains are likely to be small, according to a new American Cancer Society report.    Read more...  

Relayers voices CAN be heard...
Relay For Life is one of the largest grassroots movements in the country. With three million participants nationwide, we can win the fight against cancer by urging lawmakers to make cancer a national priority.  Visit ACSCAN to learn more. 

Introducing the ACS CAN Fight Back Express

In May 2008, leading right up to the presidential election, The ACS CAN Fight Back Express will hit the road to highlight cancer issues for candidates. The ACS CAN Fight Back Express will be traveling across the country, uniting your voice with those of millions of other Americans who believe cancer needs to be a top national priority and a campaign issue.  Visit acscan.org/bus to learn more.

• Raised $119,358
• Registered 37 teams
• Celebrated 71 survivors
• Recieved the following recognition from the American Cancer Society: 
  • PaceSetter Award 
  • Great Lakes Division Heart of Relay Honorable Mention Awards for Survivorship, Mission Delivery and Youth Involvement
  • National Heart of Relay Honorable Mention Award for Youth Involvement
  • Great Lakes Division Honorable Mention Award for Relay Online best practices
  • All American Relay Award  
  • National Terry Zahn Award for excellence in communications!

Join us in 2008 as we Celebrate.  Remember.  Fight Back.  at the Relay For Life of Dearborn!