By George Slaughter In keeping with this year’s Star Wars theme, participants in Saturday’s Relay for Life hope that the Cure is with them. The Relay for Life, sponsored American Cancer Society, is set for 5 p.m. Saturday at Katy City Park, 5720 Franz Road. While it’s called a relay, it’s a non-competitive, family-friendly event designed to celebrate cancer survivors, remember those who lost their battle with the disease, and raise money to help find […]
American Cancer Society Relay for Life
Cancer Survivor’s Tale Shows Impact of Relay for Life, Other Fundraisers
Sugar Land, Texas (March 9, 2017) John Bourg and four buddies had an adventure of a lifetime eight years ago — a motorcycle trip to Alaska that started in the parking lot of Bourg’s doctor’s office. He had just finished a chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Bourg describes the trip — which had to be limited to one month so he could be back for his next treatment — as once in a lifetime. […]