{"id":7,"date":"2017-09-11T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/11\/2017911relay-for-life\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T21:03:03","slug":"2017911relay-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/11\/2017911relay-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Relay For Life: Community Event to Find A Cure for Cancer."},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Erin Reilly <\/strong><\/p>\n

Quinnipiac\u2019s Relay for Life raised more than $33,000 to fight cancer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter the number of attendants and no matter the amount of money raised, QU has the chance to come together to raise money to fight this horrible disease,\u201d Liz Monroe, co-chair for Relay for Life, said. \u201cAnything we do has the power to make a difference towards a cancer-free world.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of the money will go to the American Cancer Society to fund research and patient care programs.<\/p>\n

About 600 people registered for Saturday\u2019s Relay for Life, according to Monroe. The 10-hour event on the quad included a walking marathon, a hair-cutting ceremony, movie screenings, lawn games, music and raffles.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a cancer survivor myself and as someone who lost a very good friend of mine to cancer, Relay is extremely important to me,\u201d Lynn Aureli, Relay for Life\u2019s survivorship chair, said.<\/p>\n

Aureli says the walking marathon symbolizes cancer itself.<\/p>\n

\"20170909_151530.jpg\"<\/a>\u201cParticipants form teams with their friends and family and one team member should be walking around the track at all times because \u2018cancer never sleeps,\u2019\u201d Aureli said.<\/p>\n

While the main event is over, fundraising for Relay for Life will continue until December 31, according to Monroe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Erin Reilly Quinnipiac\u2019s Relay for Life raised more than $33,000 to fight cancer. \u201cNo matter the number of attendants and no matter the amount of money raised, QU has the chance to come together to raise money to fight this horrible disease,\u201d Liz Monroe, co-chair for Relay for Life, said. \u201cAnything we do has … Continue reading Relay For Life: Community Event to Find A Cure for Cancer.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quinnipiac","tag-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}