The Bluffer - Red Bluff, CA
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Features Page 7 May 3, 2012 Members of relay teams walking the Vista Middle School track during their designated times. The infield of the track has tents with games, snack bars, and team base. Relay For Life comes to Red Bluff The inspiration of Relay For Life more people in the relay event to raise even more money and awareness than Klatt could himself. He came up with a 24-hour team relay event. Over the next few months that followed, he got together a committee of people to plan the very first relay event. The first official Relay For Luminary bags the line the track at Relay for Life at night in memory of loved ones that passed away to cancer, survived it, or are battling it. Bailey Patchen Features Editor In the mid 1980's, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a Tacoma colorectal surgeon, wanted to find a way to raise money and awareness for a cure for cancer. He also wanted to show his patients that were battling cancer or survived it full support. He came up with a way to raise all the money himself. In May of 1985, he decided to spend 24 hours circling the track at Baker Stadium at University of Puget Sand in Tacoma, Washington. Throughout the night, his friends, family, and patients donated money to walk or run with him during the 24 hours. Each comrade had donated 25 dollars for each lap Klatt walked. At the end of the 24 hours, Klatt raised over 27,000 dollars. During the 24 hours of circling the track, Klatt was thinking over many different ways that he could involve Life event was held in 1986 with 19 teams circling the track at the Stadium Bowl. That very first Relay For Life event raised over 33,000 dollars. Since then the Relay For Life event has reached out to 5,000 communities and over four million people world wide. The Relay For Life event is now many, different countries all over the world. This year Relay For Life is May 19 at the Vista Middle School track at 9a.m. So far there are 77 teams signed up to participate in the Red Bluff Relay For Life. Those 77 teams all together have raise over 23,000$. If you are a student and would like to sign up and take part in Relay For Life, you can join the Red Bluff High relay team. Relay For Life in Red Bluff community Veronica Smith Staff Writer The annual Relay for Life is on its way to Red Bluff and a lot of groups and stores are coming in to support this event. The Relay for Life event consists of a handful of people for each team that camp out for 24 hours and during that time, one person from each group must walk around the track. During the whole 24 hours, there are fun activities, free food handed out, music, and plenty of fund raising opportunities for the teams. There are a lot of heart touching moments during this 24 hour event. Such as, the first lap is for all the cancer survivors and the ones who are fighting cancer right now. Relay for Life has a way to touch people, whether they have cancer, their family member has cancer, or if they just want to support. To get into this event, each person in your group must raise 100$ each. Our Red Bluff High School usually has a team of its own but this year the Red Madi Cu The first lap of Relay for Life is the survivors walk. Bluff High School will not be doing one this year. All of the booths are selling things to raise their money. Some sell food and drinks, shirts, candles, and for the children, they have face painting. Relay for Life is an over night event that can and will change a persons outcome of life. With the stories told and watching survivors being able to live freely, it makes people more thankful of what they have. Even if you are not in a group, you are able to walk around the track, walk around booths, and watch the events until a certain amount of time at night, anybody is welcome. Since this event has started, many communities hold this event and with the effort the communities put in, the American Cancer Society saves more and more lives each year. Relay for Life will be held on the Saturday morning of May 19 and will end May 20, Sunday morning. The groups will be setting up early in the morning for the big day. Spartan heads revamped by art students years untouched. library, restored after fifteen They're soon to be hung in Claire Samay Staff Writer The Spartan mascot headpieces, better known as the "Spartan heads", in the 90's were an intricate part of the high school mascot costume. The heads were used in rallies and football games as the mascot which is a key figure in rallying team support. The Spartan head often would get fans cheering for the winning touchdown and parading around and showing school spirit, for example. High school students created the Spartan heads and they range from 15- 20 years old. With help from students, Haley Harris, Brandon Ragone, and Cody Demarath, these pieces of art will be displayed in the library in the near future. The Spartan heads had been sitting in Mrs. Haase's room and Student Government came up with the idea of having them repaired and displaying them in the library. "They started falling apart and just sitting in my room. We wanted to do something with them because they are cool, and now we can enjoy seeing them n the library," Mrs. Haase stated. "I like all Red Bluff High School's history and they did a great job on the heads. They look very good," explained Mrs. Clawson, Red Bluff High's librarian, on her thoughts and feelings about the remodeled heads.