The sixth annual Relay always of Boyertown raised $199,000 for the yankee Cancer Society over the weekend.
More than five hundred folks registered for the 24-hour event, that ended Sunday morning at Boyertown highschool. Another 800 to one,000 folks came to support the hassle, aforementioned Jim Davidheiser, event chairman.
"I suppose the highlight was that we have a tendency to had rattling attending, the weather was stunning and everybody had the spirit of fighting cancer," Davidheiser aforementioned.
In addition, Boyertown was selected this year as a regional web site for a cancer interference study by the yankee Cancer Society.
Davidheiser aforementioned 148 folks ages thirty to sixty five took surveys, had their height and waist measurements taken and had blood drawn. To qualify for the study, participants must not ever are diagnosed with cancer. And for successive twenty years, they're going to fill out annual surveys, Davidheiser aforementioned.
While the Boyertown Relay always continues to be wanting its $233,000 fundraising goal, the campaign can continue through August.
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