Virtual Volunteers – Celebrating, Remembering, and Fighting Back!
On behalf of the Teams, Team Captains, Mentors, and Planning Committee, of Relay For Life of Second Life 2008, I extend a heartfelt and soul shaking thank you to the residents of Second Life for your support and participation.
Thank you so very much for making our cause your cause. Thank you for reaching out to us with arms of support and friendship. Thank you for your understanding and sense of humor as we bumped our way down the fundraising path. Thank youfor your tolerance of our growing pains.
Thanks to you,Relay For Life of Second Life 2008, has ended an outstanding season. You were the punch in our swing at cancer so – please join us in our shout of joy – TAKE THAT CANCER!
See you next year, July 18 and 19; we’ll be looking for you,
Fayandria Foley-McDunnough
event chair
Relay For Life of Second Life 2008
Contents
SLCN.TV Telethon
This year features the exciting debut of the SLCN.TV RFL Telethon that will broadcast the relay event live out to the 40,000 TV sets inworld that feature SLCN.TV channels as well as to audiences on the web.
On 19 July 2008 SLCN.TV will be encouraging viewers to donate to the Relay For Life of Second Life during the 2008 virtual Relay.
Starting at 10:00AM SLT SLCN will broadcast events directly from the all-day event happenings plus several special treats from popular TV personalities.
All the excitement is to raise awareness and donations that benefit the American Cancer Society and their work to find a cure.
Go to the live Telethon now Chat Bridge
The 12 hour telethon will feature the following events:-
Telethon Schedule
10am Opening Ceremony
HOST: Saffia Widdershins
11am Survivors Lap
HOST: Saffia Widdershins
12pm Parade of Teams
HOST: Callie Cline
1pm Sail On – Sail for Life
HOST: MarkTwain White
2pm Tiny Snail Races
HOST: Wiz Nordberg & crew
3pm Live Music
HOST: Angie Mornington & Paisley Beebe
4pm Furries, Fairies, Dragons, and Mythical race
HOST: Yxes Delacroix
5pm SLASCAR Celebrity Kart Race
HOST: Suku Ming
7pm Hereos Tour
HOST: Ducky and Crap Mariner
8pm Bald is Beautiful
HOST: Pooky Amsterdam
9pm Luminaria Ceremony
HOST: Paisley Beebe
CONVIO TEAM TOTALS
Below is listed the amount that participating teams on the convio site have had donated as of July 17, 8:30 PM SLT. The first number is the convio amount in lindens and the second number is a snapshot of the team’s total donations, including the convio donations, at the time stated above. Please note that the addition of the convio donations to the kiosk amounts may have caused a change in the overall standings. You will need to take this number and verify where it fits into the side-bar listings. We are working on achieving the ability to have the kiosk totals reflect the convio totals and automatically change the standing but for now this is the best we can offer. We apologize for any confusion.
Fay and Val
MC Estates L$280,900 off world / full total L$485,605
*
Relay Rockers L$139,125 / L$2,153,010
*
Gianfar Kingdom L$124,550 / L$339,061
*
Team Elizabeth Blackwell L$115,275 / L$214,776
*
RFL of SL General Donations L$99,110 / L$1,075,978
*
BBA All-Stars L$79,500 / L$2,463,998
*
Passionate Redheads L$72,875 / L$1,988,351
*
Relay Raiders L$59,230 / L$9,317,400
*
Eternal Beacon L$46,375 / L$1,127,961
*
Team Unity L$31,800 / L$ 224,364
*
Adam ondi Ahman and Lyonesse L$27,825 / L$115,705
*
RadioRadio L$27,825 / L$600,187
*
HEART n SOUL RELAYERS L$26,500 / L$420,291
*
Frozen Peas L$13,250 / L$15,250
*
BBA Hotshots L$6,625 / L$447,841
*
Judy’s Angels L$6,625 / L$330,787
*
MASH L$6,625 / L$122,972
*
Spinners 4 Life L$1,325 / L$247,344
I am you by Wilma Delgado
I’m a bit of a private person but I will tell you a bit about my reasoning for being so vocal about RFL. I’m a cancer survivor! I was first diagnosed with breast cancer in August of 2004. I went thru chemo and radiation . . . thinking it was all over and done with. But, this wasn’t to be. I was diagnosed a second time in July of 2007. I finished my chemo in late March. I’m finishing up with my radiation now and I fully intend on being around to spoil my grandbabies SOMEDAY. My son is 21 and a senior in college. I will be here to see those grandkids. I know that. I feel it in my heart.
I think it is amazing at what we can do when we pull together and work towards the goal. SL RFL last year was one of the most touching things I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been involved with RFL for many years and I was just as touched at the Survivors Lap in SL as I was my first survivors lap in so called real world. I sat in front of my computer on a beautiful summer day. . . . I sat there all day . . . couldn’t tear myself away from the computer screen. Everyone came together for the same cause. This is a beautiful thing!
Cancer is a horrible disease but it doesn’t have to be a death sentence. Don’t look at me like I’m sick or a patient . . . just look at me. . . . I’m a mom. . . . I’m a daughter . . . a sister . . . a wife . . . a friend. I am you.
Cancer can happen to anyone. Let’s just find a cure. Please join me at Relay for Life and be generous. Help us Remember, Celebrate and Fight Back against Cancer!
Until there’s a Cure,
Wilma Delgado
Oh, I forgot this part . . . grins. I walked my first Survivors Lap with my 75 year old mother. She is a breast cancer survivor of 40 years! I walked in our honor and in memory of my older sister that lost her fight to ovarian cancer at the very young age of 46.
If you are interested in submitting a blog post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (for the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (for any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming up to your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!
Thanks,
Otenth Paderborn
Why I Relay – by Poppy Zabelin
Twenty-five years ago I was a young mother with a one-year-old son sitting in a doctors office when I heard those words “you have cancer” – a recurrence of the thyroid cancer I’d had in my teens.
A few days later a colleague came back from a visit to a local research hospital and told me that the walls were covered with posters for a fund-raising event. His words gave me hope. The posters read “40% of cancers are curable… now we need to cure the other 60%”.
He hugged me, and told me he was sure I was in that first 40% …
… and, I was.
Two and half decades on, my thyroid cancer is well under control, although I still need medication and I will need regular checkups for the rest of my life. And, according to ACS sources, more than half of the people who are diagnosed with cancer today will_die_of _something_else.
So we’ve made progress. But not nearly enough.
We still have a long way to go before we can say that *no-one* will die of cancer. And we have an even longer way to go before we can prevent it entirely.
In the meantime we still need to support those who, after hearing those words “you have cancer”, have to go through often distressing, disfiguring, and debilitating treatment, and the anxiety of waiting to learn whether the treatment has worked, punctuated by stress, uncertainty, depression and loss of control.
And that’s why I Relay. I relay to raise money for cancer research and to help find a cure. I relay to help raise awareness so that others are encouraged to live in a way that reduces their chance of cancer or at least to detect it early on. But above all I relay to support my fellow survivors who are walking this journey and especially those who are going through treatment right now. I relay because I care.
If YOU are a survivor, or a caregiver, join us on the opening lap of Relay For Life on July 19. The web page for registration is : http://tinyurl.com/5t64bh
IF that fails to work (which it does if your browser security doesn’t allow redirection), this is the “long” web address:
http://www.formlogix.com/Manager/UserForm56375.aspx?Param=VXNlcklkPTU2Mzc1LkZvcm1JZD0x
—-
If your interested in submitting a blog type post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (For the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (For any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming upto your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!
Thanks,
Dave.
“Fight Back … Relay For Life”
For children all over the world
My Reason to Relay is so that children all over the world do not have to go through the pain, sorrow and unbearable loneliness of losing their mother or father to the awful disease that cancer is. And so that parents do not have to suffer along with their children who have cancer, then live with the unspeakable grief of losing their child to cancer. To the memory of my mother who died from cancer and left a grieving, lonely and angry daughter with a giant hatred for cancer. . . . I pledge to Relay For Life!!
Belle Loll
If you are interested in submitting a blog post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (for the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (for any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming up to your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!
Thanks,
Otenth Paderborn