Kosciusko County's Relay For Life has been scheduled for May 21 at 22 at Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
Registration will begin at 4 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. on May 21. The opening ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. followed by a survivors lap May 21.
Kosciusko Community Hospital will sponsor a survivor dinner May 21. The dinner is for cancer survivors and their families and will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Shrine building at the fairgrounds.Invitations to the dinner will soon be mailed out.
There will be a luminary ceremony May 21 at 10 p.m. Anyone is welcome to come the day of the relay and make a luminary bag and stay to remember those who lost their battle with cancer.
A closing ceremony will be May 22 at 7 a.m.
People interested in starting a team can go to www.relayforlife.org/kosciuskocountyin.
A team captains' meeting will be May 13 at 7 p.m. at KCH in the Reflections Room for those interested in forming a relay team.
There have been 12 teams that have been formed so far and more teams are needed, according to Elizabeth Shull, walk vice chairwoman.
A total of $41,541 was raised during last year's walk in Kosciusko County, and this year's goal is to raise $51,000.
The funds raised will go to the American Cancer Society for cancer research.
Shull said the relay committee will make stops around Warsaw Saturday to encourage the community to participate in this year's relay.
Shull said she has been involved with Relay For Life for 2 years.
Last year she participated by serving as a team captain, and this year, besides serving as walk vice chairwoman, she will be a team captain.
She said she first began to participate in the relay in memory of her father, Ray White, who died from bone cancer May 21, 2005.
"This year is more difficult not only on me but my family because Friday, May 21, marks five years of losing him," Shull said.
Shull said her father lived only nine weeks with the disease, and said the night her father passed away Kosciusko County was having its annual Relay For Life.
"He was at home with a room full of people he loved and who loved him," Shull said.
