Friday evening through Saturday morning
June 14-15, 2002
Etobicoke Centennial Park, Toronto

Relay for Life 2002

Some members of the Bell'Arte Singers are entering a team in the Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life 2002 event.

Susan made hats for us with TBA, Team Bell'Arte, on them. Unfortunately her brother died recently so she and her husband were missing from the team. Another couple showed up briefly in the middle of arranging a deal on their house. However, they took a cell phone call and were required to leave before midnight in order to sign back the "final" offer before it expired. I had to leave after midnight because June 15 was a "moving the furniture from my in-laws vacation home and re-distributing it amongst the relatives day". Despite this, our team captain, Tim, stayed 'til the morning and, I'm sure, represented TBA very well. Congratulations to the team and Tim, who, by the way, is also a cancer survivor.

I, personally, enjoyed this year's Relay for Life much better than last year's at Birchmount Park. I can't name a single factor but I note these points:

• The rain held off so we could do our paces on the track. Last year it rained and the activities were all held in the arena.
• Less crowds: I believe this is the first year for Centennial Park in Etobicoke at the western edge of Toronto. This meant more parking, food, more room on the track.
• Closer to my home: I didn't have to drive across Toronto this year.
• A fine team: Last year's team was also great, except for one person we were members of this year's team. As noted above, the team had our own hats.

Lest I forget, my personal "in memoriam" for this year, was in honouring the memory of my sister-in-law, Corinne who died of cancer last November. I purchased a memorial candle which was included with the 100's lining the Centennial Park track. Our team remembered Phil King, a tenor in our choir, who passed away from cancer a couple of years ago.