Relay for Life important to Bigfork community

This summer we will celebrate Bigfork’s 10th “Relay for Life.”   

Relay for Life is a community gathering to raise money and awareness, to find treatments and cures in the fight against cancer.

Cancer does not care who you are. It does not care if you’re male or female or the color of your skin. Cancer does not care where you were born or where you went to school. It doesn’t care how much money you make or where you live. Cancer does not care where you go to church or who you love. Cancer does not care.

I care. I care about my two grandpas, one who won his battle and the other who didn’t. I care about my two uncles, one who could afford the best care and the other who couldn’t, and in the end, they both lost. I care about my cousin who right now is winning his fight and my sister-in-law who is deep in battle.  

I care about my mother-in-law who has heard the words, ”you have cancer” more than any one person should (and once is too many). And I care about so, so many friends, those who have won and those who have lost their battles.

I care about a boy who died the week before he turned seven and the young lady, the namesake of our team, who graduated from high school in June and died in September. Two people I feel a connection to, but neither of whom I had ever met.

Cancer may not care but I do and so I relay.  I invite you to relay, too. Bigfork Relay for Life is July 18-19.

If you care, to volunteer, to start a team or for more information please call me,    Debbie Ingram, at 406-885-7714.

— Debbie Ingram, Bigfork