2013 Miss-Lou Relay for Life

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Miss-Lou residents will once again strap on their walk-ing shoes tonight to battle cancer in the

17th annual Miss-Lou Relay for Life.

Nationally, Relay for Life traces its roots back to a Tacoma, Wash., doctor who spent 24 hours circling a track to raise money for his lo-cal American Cancer Society of-fice. In 1985, Dr. Gordy Klatt raised $27,000. Today, Relay for Life is the main volunteer-driven fundrais-ing event for the American Can-cer Society.

This year, the Miss-Lou Relay is

dedicated to Cliff Merritt. Merritt was President and CEO

of Delta Bank in Vidalia from 1998 to 2012.

He died July 23, 2012, after a battling colon cancer for several years.

“Cliff was always an avid sup-porter,” said Miss-Lou Relay for Life chair Sherry Kiser. “He was just a wonderful person.”

Approximately 50 teams are signed up for this year’s Miss-Lou Relay; 38 of those teams will have booths at the Relay site tonight.

Accounting chair Janis Holder said the event is on track to break last year’s fundraising total.

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Teams set up tents and gather along the Vidalia Riverfront for the 2012 Miss-Lou Relay for Life.

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“We are currently above where we were last year at this point,” Holder said. “I certainly hope we beat last year’s total.”

Despite the event’s large fundrais-ing ability, Holder said the event does not set an annual fundraising goal.

“Our personal goal is always to match what we did the previous year,” Holder said. “We don’t really say ‘Oh, we are going to do $300 thou-sand.’ We just do what we did last year and pray that we go over what we raised the previous year.”

The Miss-Lou Relay for Life’s lofty fundraising work has garnered sever-al awards for the event. Kiser said the most prestigious accolades include being ranked fifth nationally in fund-raising per capita and regularly plac-ing in the top five for total fundrais-ing in the event’s district.

To raise money for the event, teams host fundraisers in various forms. A new team this year, Team Jesus hosted a Zumbathon in early March at Natchez Total Fitness. The team requested a $5 donation minimum for each class. In total, the team has raised more than $4,700. The Natchez Market’s method of fundraising is

consistently successful.“The Market has is always very suc-

cessful,” Kiser said. “We think they are going to do even better than they did last year.”

And they already have. In 2012, Natchez Markets raised

$25,575. The Markets’ total this year eclipsed the previous year’s total one week ago.

Fundraising will continue all night tonight.

“It’s like a little festival,” Kiser said. “There will be music, activities and I’m excited about our speaker, Marshall Ramsey.”

Ramsey is an editorial cartoon-ist and melanoma survivor. He was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002 and 2006. Ramsey has also re-ceived awards from the Melanoma Research Foundation and the Amer-ican Cancer Society for promoting skin cancer screenings.

As with all Relay for Life events, the relay begins with a survivor lap — specifically dedicated to survivors of cancer. The second lap is for any-one who provides care for cancer pa-tients. All relay teams begin walk-ing together on the following lap, continuing to walk until just before 4 a.m. Saturday.

“It’s just so inspiring to see those survivors give it everything they’ve got, even with all they have been through,” co-chair Julia Drews said. “It’s very touching to see them so de-termined to finish the survivor lap. That’s why we do what we do.”

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Misty Graning of team Delta Bank lights a luminary during the 2012 Relay for Life at the Vidalia Riverfront. The luminary service features a song and poem from Jordan Petty.

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S c h e d u l e o f E v e n t s

Sherry Kiser-Event Chair, Activities Co-Chair

Bridgid Martin-LA Publicity

Julia Drews-Team Registration, Co-Chair

Janis Holder-Accounting Chair, Team Recognition,

State Leadership Representative

Al Lanehart-Logistics

Cathy Hill-Survivorship Chair

Angie Bryant-Newsletter

Charman Cupit-Online event manager

Kala Miller-Sponsorship Chair, Survivor Committee

Amanda Hill-Survivors

Rosco-Publicity

Tim Fuqua-Mission Delivery

Buddy Hill-Logistics

Tana Ferrington-T-shirts, Lumiana Chair

Ilene Gill-Fundraising Chair

Kathy Prospere-American Cancer Society Staff

Survivor RegistrationSurvivor’s Reception hosted by: Dr. Jack RodriguezRelay Welcome: Sherry Kiser

Judging of tent sights, team batons, & team t-shirts will be done throughout the night.

Opening Song – Andre’ Keys

Opening Prayer – Bro. Bill McCullinNational Anthem – Andre’ KeysPledge of Allegiance – Sheriff Kenneth HedrickMayor’s Welcome – Hyram Copeland

Celebrate Speaker – Marshall Ramsey1st Lap – Survivor Lap2nd Lap – Caregivers Lap (friends, family, etc.)Balloon ReleaseRosco – Introduction of Teams – All team members walk together with banners.

Theme Lap #1 – SPORTS FANATIC LAP

Musical Entertainment by Scratch

Luminary Service begins with song by Jordan PettyLighting of TorchesSky Lantern Release with song: What a Wonderful WorldSilent LapScrolling of Memorials & Honors

Hope & Fight Back ServiceSong: Kelvin LusterSpeaker: Kera Fennix

Theme Lap #2 – FAVORITE REALITY SHOW LAP

Entertainment continues with ScratchEntertainment by Mojo Mudd

Theme Lap #3 – CARTOON CHARACTER LAP

Team Activities & Games Begin: Whistle Replay - Mummy Wrap Relay - Plunger Relay - Sponge Relay - Ping Pong Relay - Snorkel RelayClosing Ceremonies and Presentation of Team Awards

Please keep in mind this is an approximate time line. We do our best to stay as close to the schedule as possible but sometimes things happen that make it difficult. Thanks for your understanding.

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6:15 pm

6:30 pm

6:45 pm

7:30 pm

8-9 pm

9 pm

9:30 pm

9:45 pm

10 pm-11pm11:15-12:30

12:15 am

12:30 am

4 am

1 The Markets

2 Our Lady of Lourdes

3 Relay For Life Committee

4 Britton & Koontz Bank

5 Vidalia Women’s Club

6 Greater Mt. Carmel Baptist Church

7 God’s Angelic Warriors

8 CLTCC High School PCT

9 Natchez Adams School Educators

10 First Church of Natchez

11 Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office

12 Pilgrim Baptist Church

13 Isle of Capri Casino

14 Red Hot Merchants of Ferriday

15 Glenburney Healthcare and Rehab

16 Team Metro

17 WalMart - Natchez

18 Pirates of the CUREibbean

19 Natchez Community Hospital

20 Stine Lumber

21 Delta Bank

22 Walgreens

23 Delta Sigma Sorority - Vidalia Chapter

24 Team Co-Lin

25 Sullivan’s Collision

26 Team Courage

27 First Baptist Church of Vidalia

28 Adams County Correctional Center

29 Concordia Bank & Trust

30 Team Tatas

31 Vidalia Police Department

32 Fruit of the Loom

33 Team FROG

34 Team Carry On

35 Team Jesus

36 Team Burnout - Natchez Ford

37 Delta Sigma Theta - Natchez “4 Kim Allen”

38 Team Cliff Merritt Family

Comfort Suites

Silas Simmons, LLC

Hoggatt’s Self Storage

City of Vidalia

Vidalia Police Department

The Markets

Radzewicz Exploration & Drilling

Natchez Pathology Laboratory

Tensas State Bank

Vidalia Apparel

Vidalia Women’s Club

Unplugged Communications

Unlimited Resources

Intensive Home Health

Isle of Capri

Trinity Episcopal School

Britton & Koontz Bank

W T Drilling Company, Inc.

Jordan Carriers

Concordia Bank

Delta Bank

Callon Petroleum

Natchez Community Hospital

Louisiana Hydro-electric Co.

Concordia Sentinel

First Natchez Radio Group

J&N Trophies

Miss-Lou Port-A-Johns

Wheeler’s Port-A-Potties

Vidalia Lower Elementary

Vidalia Upper Elementary

Concordia Parish Academy

for Science and Technology

* United Mississippi Bank* Riverland Medical Center* Team Survivor & Friends* Adams County Sheriff* Alcorn State University School of Nursing* Team Jonathan Anderson* Just Between Friends* Phi Beta Sigma* Xi Epsilon Zeta* Grace United Methodist Church*No Tent Site

Midnight Snack Judging Begins - “Anything that goes with your Relay team’s theme”


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R e l a y T e a m s(and map locations)

S p o n s o r s

R e l a y C o m m i t t e e

S c h e d u l e o f E v e n t s

Sherry Kiser-Event Chair, Activities Co-Chair

Bridgid Martin-LA Publicity

Julia Drews-Team Registration, Co-Chair

Janis Holder-Accounting Chair, Team Recognition,

State Leadership Representative

Al Lanehart-Logistics

Cathy Hill-Survivorship Chair

Angie Bryant-Newsletter

Charman Cupit-Online event manager

Kala Miller-Sponsorship Chair, Survivor Committee

Amanda Hill-Survivors

Rosco-Publicity

Tim Fuqua-Mission Delivery

Buddy Hill-Logistics

Tana Ferrington-T-shirts, Lumiana Chair

Ilene Gill-Fundraising Chair

Kathy Prospere-American Cancer Society Staff

Survivor RegistrationSurvivor’s Reception hosted by: Dr. Jack RodriguezRelay Welcome: Sherry Kiser

Judging of tent sights, team batons, & team t-shirts will be done throughout the night.

Opening Song – Andre’ Keys

Opening Prayer – Bro. Bill McCullinNational Anthem – Andre’ KeysPledge of Allegiance – Sheriff Kenneth HedrickMayor’s Welcome – Hyram Copeland

Celebrate Speaker – Marshall Ramsey1st Lap – Survivor Lap2nd Lap – Caregivers Lap (friends, family, etc.)Balloon ReleaseRosco – Introduction of Teams – All team members walk together with banners.

Theme Lap #1 – SPORTS FANATIC LAP

Musical Entertainment by Scratch

Luminary Service begins with song by Jordan PettyLighting of TorchesSky Lantern Release with song: What a Wonderful WorldSilent LapScrolling of Memorials & Honors

Hope & Fight Back ServiceSong: Kelvin LusterSpeaker: Kera Fennix

Theme Lap #2 – FAVORITE REALITY SHOW LAP

Entertainment continues with ScratchEntertainment by Mojo Mudd

Theme Lap #3 – CARTOON CHARACTER LAP

Team Activities & Games Begin: Whistle Replay - Mummy Wrap Relay - Plunger Relay - Sponge Relay - Ping Pong Relay - Snorkel RelayClosing Ceremonies and Presentation of Team Awards

Please keep in mind this is an approximate time line. We do our best to stay as close to the schedule as possible but sometimes things happen that make it difficult. Thanks for your understanding.

4:30 pm5:15 pm

6 pm

6:15 pm

6:30 pm

6:45 pm

7:30 pm

8-9 pm

9 pm

9:30 pm

9:45 pm

10 pm-11pm11:15-12:30

12:15 am

12:30 am

4 am

1 The Markets

2 Our Lady of Lourdes

3 Relay For Life Committee

4 Britton & Koontz Bank

5 Vidalia Women’s Club

6 Greater Mt. Carmel Baptist Church

7 God’s Angelic Warriors

8 CLTCC High School PCT

9 Natchez Adams School Educators

10 First Church of Natchez

11 Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office

12 Pilgrim Baptist Church

13 Isle of Capri Casino

14 Red Hot Merchants of Ferriday

15 Glenburney Healthcare and Rehab

16 Team Metro

17 WalMart - Natchez

18 Pirates of the CUREibbean

19 Natchez Community Hospital

20 Stine Lumber

21 Delta Bank

22 Walgreens

23 Delta Sigma Sorority - Vidalia Chapter

24 Team Co-Lin

25 Sullivan’s Collision

26 Team Courage

27 First Baptist Church of Vidalia

28 Adams County Correctional Center

29 Concordia Bank & Trust

30 Team Tatas

31 Vidalia Police Department

32 Fruit of the Loom

33 Team FROG

34 Team Carry On

35 Team Jesus

36 Team Burnout - Natchez Ford

37 Delta Sigma Theta - Natchez “4 Kim Allen”

38 Team Cliff Merritt Family

Comfort Suites

Silas Simmons, LLC

Hoggatt’s Self Storage

City of Vidalia

Vidalia Police Department

The Markets

Radzewicz Exploration & Drilling

Natchez Pathology Laboratory

Tensas State Bank

Vidalia Apparel

Vidalia Women’s Club

Unplugged Communications

Unlimited Resources

Intensive Home Health

Isle of Capri

Trinity Episcopal School

Britton & Koontz Bank

W T Drilling Company, Inc.

Jordan Carriers

Concordia Bank

Delta Bank

Callon Petroleum

Natchez Community Hospital

Louisiana Hydro-electric Co.

Concordia Sentinel

First Natchez Radio Group

J&N Trophies

Miss-Lou Port-A-Johns

Wheeler’s Port-A-Potties

Vidalia Lower Elementary

Vidalia Upper Elementary

Concordia Parish Academy

for Science and Technology

* United Mississippi Bank* Riverland Medical Center* Team Survivor & Friends* Adams County Sheriff* Alcorn State University School of Nursing* Team Jonathan Anderson* Just Between Friends* Phi Beta Sigma* Xi Epsilon Zeta* Grace United Methodist Church*No Tent Site

Midnight Snack Judging Begins - “Anything that goes with your Relay team’s theme”


IHHC Celebrates Our Survivors and

Remembers Our LossArlevia Martin

SurvivorIHHC President & CEOShe is a vision of hope,

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We are proudsupporters of

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In memory ofShane Seyfarth

For a BIGGER causeHill wins national Relay for Life volunteer award

Cathy Hill, survivorship chair for the

Miss-Lou Relay for Life,

holds up a per capita award

won by the relay in 2012.

The M iss-Lou Relay for Life

has in the top 10 nationally for per capita

donations every year

since 2007.


Sheriff Chuck Mayfield

supports the Miss-Lou

Relay for Life!

Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.

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Cathy Hill isn’t helping out with Relay for Life for her own health.

She is doing it for her mother and millions of

cancer patients worldwide. Hill won the American Cancer So-

ciety’s Fight Back Community Vol-unteer Award for her work in the Miss-Lou Relay for Life at an annual awards program in December.

Her involvement with the Miss-Lou Relay for Life dates back to the event’s creation in 1996. She current-ly serves as the survivorship chair of the Miss-Lou Relay, a position she has filled for nine years.

Hill received the community volun-teer award for working with teams, churches and her workplace — Nat-chez Pathology Laboratory — to get survivors registered.

“I had no idea I was going to receive the award,” she said. “I was invited to go to the meeting, but thought it was to receive an award for the whole relay event, not an individual award.

I’m humbled to have received it, but that’s not why I am involved.”

Event chair Sherry Kiser said Hill’s selfless dedication played a vi-tal role in increasing survivor reg-istration.

“Cathy is awesome,” Kiser said. “She takes care of everything that has to do with the survivors. At one point we had more cancer survivors involved than the whole state.”

But Hill’s story runs deeper than a

dedicated volunteer.Hill’s mother was diagnosed with

cancer in 1995. The following year, Hill began her fight to cure cancer.

“If my mother hadn’t have been diagnosed with cancer, I may have never gotten involved in Relay for Life,” she said. “I want there to just be a pill that people can take and they will be cured. The driving force for my continued involvement is that my mother passed away 10 years ago.”

When Hill isn’t devoting her time to the Miss-Lou Relay for Life she works as at Natchez Pathology Labo-ratory, where she interacts with oth-er cancer patients on a regular basis.

“I work in a medical lab, and we provide services for a lot of cancer patients.” Hill said. “Dealing with people who are diagnosed keeps the motivation to find a cure right in front of me every day. It reminds me that I’m doing it for a bigger cause.”

The 2013 Relay for Life begins at 6 p.m. on Friday with a brief welcome and continues until 4 a.m. Saturday.

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The MIss-Lou Relay for Life has placed in the top 10 nationally for per capita donations every year since 2007.


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celebrate • remember • fight back

MattFor

&ShaneTeam Jesus dedicates work as tribute to two Miss-Lou men

Shane Sey-farth, left,

and Matt Mc-Givaren were

active mem-bers of the

Relay for Life effort, even

while they both battled colon cancer.

Team Jesus has dedicated its work to the two men who died last year.


Dr. Raymond L. Brown andDr. Fred G. Emrick are

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Stop by for Some great food and treatS!

Chicken • Pork • Sausage Kabobs Snow Cones • Drinks

Proud Sponsors of Relay for Life

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two 12 packs of Coke products.Donations by: Bryant Hammett, Jeff Britt, CPSD

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PROUD SUPPORTERS OF RELAY FOR LIFE

Members of Team Je-sus have a higher calling than raising money for the Miss-Lou Relay for Life.

“Everything we do is for Matt (McGiveran) and Shane (Sey-farth),” said team leader Teri Troxler.

Seyfarth and McGiveran died in the last year after battles with colon can-cer. Though not blood related, the two men share a family bond. McGiveran’s brother married Shane’s sister.

“They were both very special men to me,” said Jennifer McGiveran, Matt’s wife and a member of Team Jesus. “Matt was a great person, a great husband, a great father and a great brother.”

Though this is Team Jesus’ first year par-ticipating in the Miss-Lou Relay for Life, the team has already made a sizable fundraising contribution, far out-pacing the initial fun-draising goal of $1,000. As of last Friday, the team was fourth of 48 teams with $4,700 raised.

One of Team Jesus’ fundraising methods was a Zumbathon in ear-ly March at Natchez Total Fitness. Team Jesus requested a $5 dona-tion minimum for each class.

Troxler said her team is simply carrying out Seyfarth’s wishes.

“We just want to be a part of raising money to find a cure for cancer,” she said.

Though McGiveran’s wife, Jen-nifer, said she is proud to be a part of Team Jesus, she said that fun-draising has been bittersweet. On one hand, McGiveran said she en-

joys raising money for a worthy cause, but is often remind-ed of why she misses Seyfarth and her hus-band.

“They were both people persons,” she said. “They were al-ways full of life. Even when they were sick, they wanted to help and bring people to-gether.”

Other Miss-Lou residents are taking note of Team Jesus’ work.

Survivorship chair Cathy Hill said Team Jesus’ efforts are just as much about the character of the team members as the memory of Seyfarth and McGiveran.

“Team Jesus’ dedicating their team to two great members of the community is a great tribute,” Hill said. “Shane and Matt were a part of the Miss-Lou Relay for Life and will be dearly missed.”

“They were always full of life. Even

when they were sick,

they wanted to help and bring people

together.”Jennifer McGivaren

wife of Matt McGivaren

S t o R Y b Y J o S h b e R g e R o n

The McGivaren family poses in front of the Britton & Koontz Relay for Life tent during last year’s event. Standing with Matt McGivaren, second from left, are his sons Drew, Cole and Landry and his wife Jennifer.

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Friday | May 3rd On The Riverfront

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Tommy Lowry will be cooking up a cure under the Delta Bank Tent.

Help us fight cancer with the purchase of:• Pulled Pork Sandwich & Chips – $5.00

• Sausage Rollover & Chips – $5.00• Turkey Leg & Chips – $8.00

• Turkey Wing & Chips – $4.00Take a turn on the Giant Angry Bird Slingshot

• One turn on the slingshot – $2.00 • Three turns on the slingshot – $5.00

Get Angry with us, join the fight! All proceeds donated to Relay for Life.

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The Markets are honored to be participating in Relay for Life

again this year. The Markets have been involved in Relay

since its inception 17 years ago. Being a local home-owned

business, many members of this community have ties to the

Markets as past employees themselves or family members

that have been a part of our team. So, we have many to

honor and many to remember with love and admiration at each

Relay. Several years ago we felt we could do more to raise

money and fortunately we found our niche in The Ribeyes

for Relay. We averaged the number of ribeyes over the

years and realized we have sold more than 20,000 Ribeyes for

relay....That’s a lot of grilling! We can’t thank our wonderful

team enough for the hard work that goes in to each of these

fundraisers. We are especially proud this year to be able

to tell you that we are going to break our record. We are

actually going to go over $30,000.00 in monies raised for the

2013 Relay for Life. The Markets would like to thank all of

you in our great community for your continued support!

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