Relay for Life Broadcast Script - Multimedia Project

Anchor OC Take SOT Super: Aaron Kinard Student, Cancer Survivor VOT Anchor OC

Cancer death rates are falling steadily, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual cancer statistics report. In South Carolina in 2009 had 22,100 new cancer cases. Winthrop University and residents of the Rock Hill area walked Friday, April 16, to raise money and awareness. The event allows people to celebrate the lives of people who have survived cancer and remember those who lost their fight. One Winthrop student and leukemia survivor, Aaron Kinard, participated in the event all night. SOT: Aaron Kinard :20 In: Relay for Life Out: expected it to be. The night started with 30 survivors walking the first lap around the track in the Survivors Lap. Later in the evening a Luminaria Ceremony begins once candles are lit inside bags lining the track. These bags have the names of people who have battled cancer and survived and those who lost their fight. Winthrop had 245 participants relay for the event and raised $21, 546.03. The next Relay for Life event will be May 1, at York Comprehensive High School.