“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein

February 2009 What A Success!

Jan. 13 Relay Rally Have you been to the Tift Thanks all of you who attended the Relay For Life Website? first Relay Rally of the season! We had a good turnout of both committee and Tift Relay has updated its website for teams and it was great! And special 2009 and everything you need to support Relay For Life is right at your thanks to Teri, for a job well done fingertips! motivating the crowd! The Relay For Life event website is: •A place where you can communicate with your team members and potential donors. •A tool you can use to raise more money to fight cancer. What does it take •A place to find out important information about your event. to be a Relay Team? How does it work? Relay Online! is accessed through any internet connection via a website. It only takes 10 or more people to build • Donors can visit the site and make donations toward the event, a team or a specific a team! Encourage participation, create team member. team spirit and get involved in your • The event planning team will use Relay Online! to keep you updated with news community while raising money for the about your event. American Cancer Society! YOUR time • Your real-time fundraising totals will be available on the website 24/7.

and energy is what makes this event a Every email you send gets us one step closer to finding a cure…Sign up. Set up. success! Send. Relay Online! Questions or Comments? Need help? Contact Keri Jones at: [email protected] Contact Rachel Montfort at 229-388-6247 for more information. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. -Napoleon Hill Hope. Progress. Answers. 1.800.ACS.2345 www.TiftRelayForLife.com Thanks To Our Paid Sponsors for 2009! You can be one too! Contact Tyler Riddle at 402.0206 HOPE Diamond Sponsor

Emerald Sponsors

Ruby Sponsors First Community Bank of Tifton Georgia Power Foundation

Sapphire Sponsors Southeastern Federal Credit Union

Look what Relay Teams are already REGISTERED! Are you? Send Save the DATE(S)! your $100 registration to ACS Relay For Life of Tift County, PO Box Relay Rallies: UGA-TCCC @5:30 pm 7514, Tifton, GA 31793 or take to Becky Smith at First Community January 13 February 10 Bank (Love Ave) March 10 April 7

ABAC Ameris Bank Survivor Dinner Celebration: UGA-TCCC Allen, Pritchett & Bassett Annie Bell Clark Tuesday April 14th at 6:30 pm BB&T Charles Spencer Colquitt EMC Eighth Street Middle School BANK Night: UGA-TCCC at 5:30 pm G.O. Bailey School First Baptist Church of Chula Monday April 20th Georgia Power Foundation First Community Bank of Tifton Heatcraft The Howard Center JT Reddick Jodi Tomberlin Family & Friends Relay For Life of Tifton County Friday Len Lastinger School Longhorn Steakhouse April 24 7pm – Saturday April 25 7am Maple Ct./Cypress Pond Matt Wilson School EB Hamilton/Friendly City Park Melissa Baxter Family & Friends Montgomery Promotions Mount Zion Baptist Church MRS Homecare Northeast Campus Northside Elementary Omega Elementary Pink Caddy’s Pre-K Center Sixth Street Academy South Georgia Banking Co. South Georgia Surgical Clinic Southside Church Crusade Stafford Companies HOPE Southeastern Federal Credit Union Survivors & Supporting Cast The York Agency Tift Avenue Church of God “ ” Tift County High School Tiftarea Academy Hope is the thing with feathers Tift Regional Dental Group Tift Regional Medical Center That perches in the soul Tifton Gazette Turner’s Furniture And sings the tune without the words UGA of Tifton Wayside Baptist Church And never stops at all -Emily Dickinson

Hope. Progress. Answers. 1.800.ACS.2345 www.TiftRelayForLife.com Upcoming/Ongoing Fun-Raisers Happy New Year!! • Tennis Clinics We are going to run a clinic with our men’s and women’s tennis teams for local Middle and High School players to raise money for our Relay For Life Team. This clinic will be run from 11:30am until 2:30pm on Saturday, February 7th at the ABAC Tennis Center. The cost will be $37 (payable to American Cancer Society) and a t-shirt will be provided. We will need all interested to register by contacting the ABAC Athletic Office at 229-391-4930 or [email protected] . We will need name, grade, ranking at school, phone number and t-shirt size by Wednesday February 4th at noon to ensure the proper t-shirt size. We will split participants into groups with similar levels as much as possible and focus on fundamentals of the game including: serves, volley, back- hand, forehands, overheads, approach shots, returns and of course mental toughness and match tactics. This may be a good refresher to begin your spring seasons. Please forward this to all interested and thank you for your support and consideration. My cell number is 229-848-2154 with any questions you may have. • Special Delivery Long Stem Rose OR “Hillbilly-Gram” - GREAT Valentine’s Gift! Call 229.386.3388 by February 12. Includes: - One Long Stem Rosed, Delivery Included - $10 OR - “Hillbilly-Gram,” and One Long Stem Rose, Delivery Included - $20 Sponsered by UGA Tifton. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society Relay For Lift of Tift County.

• Team Tifton Gazette Bake Sale - Friday, February 13th at the Tifton Gazette. Call 382-4321. Great assortment of Baked Treats provided by employees of the Tifton Gazette. They will be on sale all day.

• “Tift County Schools Chicken-Que” Sponsored by Tift County Schools to Benefit the American Cancer Society Friday, February 20 - $7.00 per plate *Make Checks Payable to Eighth Street Middle School! You May Post-Date Checks until January 31st *See Your School’s Team Captain To Purchase Tickets! *Each Individual School Will Get Credit for the Number of Tickets sold! Plates may be picked up in front or back of Eighth Street Middle School from 4:00 to 7:00! Menu: ½ a Chicken, Green Beans, Potato Salad, Bread, Dessert. Contact Marlena Thomas at 229-387-2445 ext. 1513 Email [email protected] for more information! • Team Tifton Gazette Drive Thru Breakfast Sale - Wednesday, February 25th at the Tifton Gazette. Call 382-4321.

• Team Tifton Gazette Chili Cook-off - Saturday, February 28th at the Tifton Gazette. Call 382-4321. Entries $10 per person. We Top three winners will receive prizes donated from our local Merchants.

• “Hoops For Life” 3 ON 3 Basketball Tournament - Saturday, February 28. Entry Fee: PER TEAM $21 with ABAC Student ID, $30 For Community Members. DOUBLE ELIMINATION. CASH PRIZE!!!!!! Register by February 20th in ABAC Evans Hall. Entry fee due at time of registration. For more information, contact Whitney Lightfoot at 229-391-5017 or [email protected]. Sponsored by the ABAC Ambassadors & the Honors Student Association.

• March: the 4th Annual Miss Relay For Life of Tift County Saturday, March 21st for girls and ladies age 2-22. For more informa- tion or for an application, please contact Karen Kramer at [email protected] 388-8827 or Julie Rucker at jrucker@ friendlycity.net • April: “Fools Day Race” 5k Run sponsored by Charles Spencer Elementary in honor of Cele Bullard- April 4th! More details coming soon!

• Tomberlin Family & Friends fundraiser “Cakes For A Cure!” We bake several varieties and the cakes are $20.00 each. To order email Jodi at [email protected].

• Rain”BOW” Sale Maple Court, Cypress Pond, and Cypress Pond At Home’s theme is “Looking for a Cure at the End of the Rainbow!!!” We want to “paint” Tifton the colors of the rainbow by selling bows for $10.00 each. We will be selling to businesses and to residents of Tift County (they can put them on their mail boxes). Wouldn’t it be great and pretty to see the different colors of the rainbow all around Tifton sending out HOPE for a cure. Anyone wanting to purchase a bow can call Donna Martin at 382-1791 or Michele Tucker at 382-3333.

• Tift County T T-Shirts for Sale- Tift County T with dark pink breast cancer ribbons on any color t-shirt. Short sleeve $10 and Long sleeve $12. Sizes 2X and larger are additional amount. Contact Charles Spencer Elementary to place order or for more information call 387.2430 or [email protected] or [email protected]

• Amy Henderson will donate 10% of all sales to YOUR designated Relay For Life team if you host an Initial Outfitters party from now until March 15. This is a home party direct sales company that specializes in personalization. Visit her website at www.amyhenderson.initialoutiftters.net

• Team Tifton Gazette Coffee and Biscuits Sale Biscuits $1 and coffee/juice $0.50 In this life, gifts come to us in different packages—sometimes HOPE wrapped with paper and ribbon, sometimes in relationships, some- PERSONIFIED times in opportunities. Donna Miller was a special gift to many of us. Though she was brought to Tifton to begin a career at ABAC, she made a dramatic impact on our community in many ways. One of her most passionate efforts was sharing her HOPE through the American Cancer Society (ACS). After Recovering from breast cancer in 1993, Donna launched a steady stream of initiatives and personal commitment to ease the healthcare journey of others, expanding the work of the American Cancer Society in Tifton and all of Georgia. Donna began her volunteerism with the ACS through our local Relay For Life in 1995. Then it was a much smaller event, yet showed such promise. Donna was the Luminary Chairperson for several years and was actually the one who brought us the ‘Torch Ceremony’ idea. This, of course, has transformed our Luminary Service. Donna served as the Survivorship Chairperson for 3 years and Advocacy Chairperson for 3 years. Through Relay Donna learned of other programs and services that the ACS had to offer. She became a Reach To Recovery volunteer beginning in 1995. This program was one where she was personally guiding and encouraging women with breast cancer in Tifton and surrounding counties. In 2004 she became a Certified Reach to Recovery Trainer to train more volunteers in this program and empower women to help one another. Donna was an individual advocate for local, state and federal legislation to prevent cancer and to expand research and development She was also one of nine Georgians chosen as Community Ambassadors for the American Cancer Society and then named Georgia’s Lead Ambassador in 2007, mobilizing, leading and maintaining teams to impact state and federal cancer decisions. Donna was also appointed Chairperson of the American Cancer Society State Public Policy Advisory Committee. Through her 13+ years of volunteering with the ACS, Donna received many local and area awards. One of her most treasured was the Terese Lasser Award that she received in 2007. This was a national award and was for her work with breast cancer patients and the Reach To Recovery program. Lasser was the one who started this program in 1952. Donna Miller was a true friend. Her heart and soul were evident to all around her. She made you laugh and shared your tears. She walked beside you through your journey of life. She was passionate about her work with the American Cancer Society and made a tremendous impact in our community, our state and more importantly our hearts. Donna was a perfect example of HOPE! No matter what obstacle she came upon, she found a way to overcome it. She could always show us her HOPE. This year, the Relay For Life of Tift County will show the world our HOPE while honoring our Donna Miller. The 2009 event will be named in memory of Donna Miller! Join us in Showing Your Hope and make Donna proud!

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. Get The ~Christopher Reeve Point? Hope. Progress. Answers. 1.800.ACS.2345 www.TiftRelayForLife.com