Andrew JACKSON Stephen Engelbrecht from Stratford keeps the Relay for Life walkers entertained Organizers with this year's Taranaki Relay forever discouraged members from walking the entire 24 hours since it was just too hot. Organiser Pallak Manan Singh said the weather with this year's cancer recognition function was a stark contrast to last year's wet conditions. Individuals were warned there was a threat of dehydration if the whole 24 hours were walked by them, she said. "We do not propose that, specially on a day like this." People were said 2000 by mrs Manan Singh from 80 groups registered for the big event, nonetheless it was difficult to calculate exactly how many people took part in total. "During the day so it's difficult to tell." it's open to the public The annual celebration, held at New Plymouth's Pukekura Raceway, is a walking relay to greatly help raise funds for cancer research and recall those whose lives have been afflicted with the disease. Tens of thousands of group members and members of the general public took part in the relay this season, which completed at noon yesterday and started at noon on Saturday. This is the ninth year the Relay for Life had been kept in Taranaki, Mrs Manan Singh said. The target this year was to improve $200,000. The big event took about seven months to plan and was made possible with assistance from 15 volunteers, she said. New to the event in 2010 was a of remembrance" on the course to commemorate people who had died from cancer. New Plymouth woman Meleni Phillips' personal fight against cancer was identified with her request to cut the ribbon to start out the exchange. The 43-year-old mother of two was an advocate of the exchange for 36 months before being clinically determined to have breast cancer in 2008. She has therefore develop into a surviving individual. Mrs Phillips said she was still battling breast cancer and two forms of secondary cancer. Her life span was ranging from a couple of weeks to a of years, she said. "Your life, your family's life, everything only changes," Mrs Phillips said. "I didn't think it'd ever eventually me. We did not know anything about this and now we do and we will help people." In addition to raising consciousness by sharing her story, Mrs Phillips can be a Cancer Society fundraiser. "If it was not for the Cancer Society I'd have had to obtain the money to pay for my treatment," she said. Tara Shaskey is really a Witt literature student - A Fairfax NZ News
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