By Daily Press staff
For the second year in a row, Santa Monica College will co-sponsor and host the cancer research fundraising event, “Santa Monica Relay for Life,” which will be held over a 24-hour period July 26-27 at Corsair Field. The event features teams — each made up of at least 10 people — who will walk or run continuously around the SMC track in shifts, from 9 a.m. Saturday, July 26 to 9 a.m. Sunday, July 27. Participants will camp out and enjoy entertainment, as well as build team spirit in the fight against cancer.
Corsair Field is located at the southwest corner of the SMC campus, on 16th Street between Pearl Street and Pico Boulevard.
The event will also include a luminaria ceremony at 9 p.m. July 26, during which luminaria are lit around the track to honor cancer survivors and to remember those who have died of the disease.
“We are proud to have hosted an event for the first time ever in Santa Monica that raised $65,000 last year,” said Tony Prestby, SMC’s liaison for the event. “It was a beautiful, moving and community-building event last year and I know it will be so again this year.”
The main sponsor of the event is The American Cancer Society, with support from SMC, City of Santa Monica and Santa Monica Police Department.
For information on the event or on forming teams, contact Tony Prestby at (310) 434-4003. You can also visit www.cancer.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 14, 2003. Read the original PDF.