Carol Brown takes her cancer frustrations out on a car during the Relay’s annual “car bash.” Pilot Photo/Lyn Ward

By Carol Anders Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — Campers, tents and shelters surrounded the entire walking track at Centennial Park for this year’s Relay for Life event that took place Saturday through Sunday. The annual event is held to raise money for cancer research.
Volunteers for this year’s event hoped to raise $60,000.
Luminaries were available for purchase for those wishing to memorialize someone who was lost to the disease or who is a survivor. Helping to put sand in the bags for the luminaries were members of Boy Scout Troop # 256 and their leaders. Scott Compton, one of the assistant leaders of the troop, said it is a way to help the community and show the young members the importance of helping.
Among the survivors walking in the relay were Judy Newberg and Debra Bixel. Newberg was celebrating her first year as a survivor. Bixel recently completed her treatments for cancer. She said she is grateful for those who fought to save her. She said, “I am happy to say that my soon to-be 16-year-old granddaughter, Christina Rotering, was able to have a bone marrow transplant in Jan-uary.” Rotering has had a three-year battle with cancer.