Anne's Arts & Activities Blog

With 140 days and counting until the 10th anniversary event -- July 16-17, 2010 noon to noon-- for the Kane Area Relay for Life, twenty teams are already lining up their fundraising efforts for the year. On Saturday, February 6, for example, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Church of God Fellowship Hall, the Walking by Faith Relay team will have a soup and pie dinner and craft sale. Soup will also be sold by the pint or quart. A wide variety of homemade soups will be available. Pre-orders are welcome by calling 598-0220. This is just one of hundreds of events planned to help meet goals established for Kane by the McKean County Unit of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and announced at the Kane Area Relay’s monthly meeting held this week. The goals include increasing the number of participating teams to 25. Currently 20 teams are registered. If you, your employer, club, class, neighborhood, church or family are interested in exploring having a team, call team recruiter Kellie Ely ...

Kane Area Relay for Life surpasses all goals -- Final amount raised $79,590.89 (gross) 20 teams produced a 300-person Relay Army raising money for cancer research and local cancer patient services, to sail past their $65K goal for the 2009 Kane Area Relay for Life First Place team was Kane Community Hospital (KCH) Kaleidoscopers raising just over $12K with co-team captains Amy Peterson (cancer survivor) and Luanne Larson (in front center with gray hoodies) with Fran Stewart (blue t-shirt) of the American Cancer Society and key members of the KCH team. Second place team was Doug's Desperados raising well over $11K. Fran Stewart of the American Cancer Society with Shirley Milliron, team captain, and Shirley's grandson Doug Vandeman, a cancer survivor for whom the team is named. LOVE spelled out on the Kane Area High School bleachers as luminaries light the track below. Kane Volunteer Fire Department members walk a memory lap in full gear remembering Art Brechtel, family and ...

No, no, no. No need to worry. Scott Douglas isn't going anywhere. But after Kane's Relay for Life parade, he checked out the new ride of our old friend Barry Morgan.