SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017
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part of it to help with research.
We have no problem with that.
But they are not telling us how
the money is being spent to
help our community.”
Harris said the only hard
dollar amount given by
Bickleman for last year was
that ACS gave $3,000 to help
support the Friends of
Florence free van service to
transport cancer patients to
Eugene and Springfield for
treatment.
“If the ACS wants the com-
munity to help with Relay for
Life, they need to listen to the
people of the community,”
Harris said.
She added that almost 75
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on the central and southern
Oregon coast and Polk County
for about a year. She said
Lincoln City and Newport
events do not have a designat-
ed chairperson.
“I kind of fulfill that role,”
Bickleman said. “The other
people on the committees are
dedicated to what they are
doing.”
Last year’s chairwoman and
this year’s former co-chairper-
son Harris said, “We wanted to
know where, in this communi-
ty, the money is going. We
understand that the ACS gets
percent of the work for this
year’s relay fundraiser had
been completed by the com-
mittee by the time the three
stepped down.
“The fundraising takes place
with the five months we have
left to go. It is up to the teams
to do that. This is way ahead of
last year and the year before,”
Harris said.
According to Bickleman,
6,000 Relay for Life events
worldwide raise about 60 per-
cent of the revenue for the
ACS.
“Without all of these Relay
for Life events, the ACS would
not be able to fund research and
programs,” Bickleman said.
According to Harris, Relay
for Life raised approximately
$59,000 in 2016, which was 61
percent of the previous year’s
donations.
Bickleman would like to see
that number increase to $65,000
to $70,000 in 2017 and see a 10
percent annual increase in rev-
enues going forward.
However, Harris and Bick-
leman agree that some people
are getting bored with the
event.
“There is just not enough
entertainment,” Harris said.
“Every time an event starts
to decline, we look at it and
say, is there something we can
do differently that would
engage a new, more diverse
audience or demographic?”
Bickleman said.
“Over the past couple of
years we could see a decline in
attendance and revenue (for
Florence). We thought, maybe
folks would like to do some-
thing different than coming out
to Miller Park and camping
overnight,” she added.
She said that a lot of relay
events are going toward a “fes-
tival atmosphere.”
“The FEC was a no-brainer.
It’s close to Highway 101. It
can handle a festival type
atmosphere and it has an audi-
torium,” she said.
Bickleman hopes that doing
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Relay for Life at the events
center will bring that different
demographic.
“It is going to be fresh and
new. We will be having live
entertainment, bands and
speakers on cancer education,”
she said.
The popular survivor cele-
bration walk and the luminaria
will be maintained as part of
the new program.
The next Relay for Life
committee meeting is at 5:30
p.m. on Monday, March 20, at
the Florence Elks Lodge, 1686
12th St.
For more information or
to get involved, contact
Bickleman at 541-272-9240.
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I heard them all talk about how
excited they were to play soft-
ball, and several of them want
to keep playing beyond high
school. They got the opportu-
nity to see strong females suc-
ceeding at their passion and it
was amazing.”
Aaron is also responsible for
the club’s partnership with the
Portland Trail Blazers, which
provided basketball jerseys,
instruction for coaches and
tickets for participants in the
club’s basketball program, to
attend a Blazer game in person.
Aaron said she is excited by
the response from the Blazer
organization to her outreach
efforts and the club is looking
forward to the upcoming trip to
Portland.
“Our Rip City Basketball
season will be closing up with
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Denver Nuggets. Before the
game, during the National
Anthem, 13 very lucky BGC
players and referees will walk
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Aaron said she feels the trip
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than the fun the team had dur-
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thought it was for our players
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