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  LINK TO THE STORY WITH THE POEMS AS A RELATED STORY: https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/relay-for-life-of-greater-attleboro-scheduled-for-saturday/article_b142b49b-c998-594f-a5f0-2da6a442b7a4.html The second in-person event of the Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, is almost here, as we’ll be holding a celebration of our Slam Cancer poetry-essay event from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 26 in Balfour Riverwalk Park in Attleboro’s downtown. The night will feature the authors of the poems and essays about how cancer has affected them reading their submissions, and you can preview those submissions by clicking this link to the poems as they appear on The Sun Chronicle’s Website (thesunchronicle.com). This story ran in The Sun Chronicle on Thursday, June 24. LINK TO THE POEMS DIRECTLY: POEMS:  https://www.thesunchronicle.com/communities/slam-cancer-local-residents-impacted-by-disease-share-poems-and-essays-about-their-experienc

  The return to the track for the Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro was a hopeful, inspiring moment on Saturday evening as about 50 survivors and about 200 people helped make the drive-thru and walk-the-track event a success. After being forced to hold the relay virtually last year, it was pure joy to have this very important fundraiser for the American Cancer Society back on the track at Norton High School. It was especially moving to see the luminaria --- candles lit in honor of cancer survivors or in memory of cancer victims --- back on the track, and the rain held off until three minutes before the three-hour event was set to conclude. We raised more than $54,000 so far, and the fight against cancer will continue on Saturday evening, June 26 at the Balfour Riverwalk Park in downtown Attleboro, when the relay, in partnership with the Attleboro Public Library, holds Slam Cancer, a celebration of the poetry-essay event that was held in April. Many o

  Here’s a reminder that the Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro will mark its 23 rd year of raising money for the American Cancer Society by holding two smaller in-person events this month: a drive-thru relay from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 19 at Norton High School and a celebration of the relay’s “Slam Cancer” initiative, held in conjunction with the Attleboro Public Library, from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 26 at Attleboro’s Balfour Riverwalk Park. Both events were planned with the latest American Cancer Society (ACS) guidelines for in-person events, including mandatory mask-wearing out of deference to the cancer survivors who will be in attendance. First event The drive-thru relay on June 19 will feature a chance to walk the track to view the luminaria, which will be lit in honor of cancer survivors and in memory of cancer victims. The schedule: A survivor-only experience from 6 to 6:30 p.m., after which participants will be able to stop at stations, including one to bid on raffle

When all is said and done, your Boston Bruins got booted from the Stanley Cup playoffs because they were outmuscled and beaten by a bigger, and better team, similarly to what the St. Louis Blues did to them in beating them in Game 7 in the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals. The New York Islanders’ defensemen were bigger, their forwards more precise in their shooting and, above all, their goalie, Seymon Varlamov, was almost impossible to solve after Islanders coach Barry Trotz yanked Game 1 starter Ilya Sorokin, starting with Game 2. Meanwhile, the Bruins' starting goalie, Tuukka Rask, who was injured and not at 100 percent, was a shadow of himself after Game 3, and the free agent to be may have played his final game as a Bruin. But then again, maybe not as on Friday, Rask told the media that he has a torn labrum in his hip and needs surgery that will likely keep him sidelined for the 2021-22 season until at least January, possibly February. Which begs the question that after Bruins coach

One of the most annoying terms --- and there have been at least a dozen (“we’re all in this together,” Zoom meetings, Zoom anything, remote learning, flatten the curve, social distancing, keep 6 feet apart, etc.) that the pandemic has bequeathed us --- has been “in-person event.” After all, before the pandemic, an event to which people were invited to attend tacitly implied that the event would be of “in-person” variety. That was a no-brainer. Sure, there may have been some virtual meetings held due to long-distance considerations, but a road race meant actually going to the starting line, a fundraiser meant walking the distance, a marathon meant running 26.2 miles, a 5K meant running or walking 3.1 miles ---and the Relay For Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, meant going to a local school or field for about 18 hours to walk the track in tandem with team members. But that was before the world shut down in March of 2020. Last year was a very bittersweet year for the-

  You would think that having a 100 percent chance of not getting a severe case of COVID-19 or a better than 80 or 90 percent chance of not even getting infected with COVID-19 would be incentive enough to get vaccinated. Not to mention doing your part to increase the percentage of those vaccinated in order to bring a complete end to the pandemic in the United States. But it seems that for some foolish --- make that for way too many foolish people --- getting vaccinated to preserve your health and that of others isn’t enough of a reason to get vaccinated, which has forced many states and locales to offer incentives ranging from gift cards and so-called “vax” lotteries to trips and scholarships. If that’s what it takes to have people act responsibly, then so be it. But like so many things in the pandemic that have needlessly turned political, the whole issue of getting vaccinated, like wearing masks earlier, should have never become political. After all, the vaccinations were dev