Palatine Relay For Life: Hundreds Turn Out To Fight Cancer
More than 700 walked in the night-long Relay for Life at Walter R. Sundling Junior High School.
More than 700 people turned out at Walter R. Sundling Junior High in Palatine Friday for the 2011 Relay for Life. Those participating in the fundraising walk to fight cancer also celebrated those who have survived the disease and honored the lives of those who didn't. High school students, youngsters and adults turned Sundling’s track and infield into a tent city for the event. Teams of people circled the track for 12 hours. Although the fund-raising walk was scheduled to end at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, the emotional climax came at 10 p.m. Friday, when luminaria lining the track were lit and friends and loved ones remembered victims of the disease. “We lost a sorority sister,” said Amy Mills, a member of Phi Sigma, Sigma from Springfield, …
