Relay For Life participants give, gain a little inspiration
By Mary Schenk
Sunday June 28, 2009
Robert K. O'Daniell
Meteorologist Robert Reese of Tuscola, a survivor of esophageal cancer, chats Saturday with Millie Knee of Champaign, a survivor of breast cancer for 17 years at the 2009 Relay for Life on Saturday at Centennial High School in Champaign.
CHAMPAIGN – Some were walking sprightly, others kind of dragging. Some were pushed in wheelchairs, others pulled in wagons. But the approximately 200 people who walked the survivors lap at the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life on Saturday evening were all smiling.
"We're survivors," yelled Angela Page, 45, of St. Joseph, pumping her fist in the air. She and her husband Jim Page, 54, pulled their 4-year-old son Will in a wagon around the track at Centennial High School in Champaign.
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