June 4-5, 2011

ALL TIMES & THEMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE:

2 pm - midnight ~ Gate Open

2 - 4 pm ~ Team Set Up / Site Drop-Offs

3 - 5:30 pm ~ Survivor Registration

3 - 9 pm ~ Survivor Lounge open
feat. Energy Healing w/ Trish McDonald

4 pm ~ Access road to Relay tent sites / NYA will CLOSE

4:30 - 6 pm ~ Kids For A Cure / Cancer Education

5 - 6 pm ~ Pantene Beautiful Lengths session 1

5:30 - 5:55 pm ~ LIVE - Newtown's own Daria Musk

6 - 6:30 pm ~ Opening Ceremony

NO Entertainment activities for
30-minutes after opening ceremonies

~ HIT THE TRACK!!! ~

6:30 - 8 pm ~ Cancer Education (continues after ceremonies)

6:30 - 9 pm ~ Pantene Beautiful Lengths session 2

6:30 - 9 pm ~ General Registration continues

7 pm ~ Miss Relay Contest Entries Introduced

7:30 pm ~ 'BEST' Awards (see below for 'Best' categories)

7:45 pm ~ Miss Relay Winner Crowned!!

8 pm ~ Extreme Fitness Martial Arts Demo

8:30 pm ~ Team Giggles for a Cure Cupcake Eating Contest

9 - 10 pm ~ Luminary Ceremony

10 - Midnight ~ General Registration continues

10:30 pm ~ Mass w/ Mnsr Bob Weiss
in NYA outdoor courtyard

10:30 pm ~ Ecumenical Service inside NYA nursery w/
Reverend Matt Crebbin of Newtown Congregational Church

11 pm ~ 'What Cancer Cannot Do' a film by Shradha Sahani

11:15 pm ~ FIGHT BACK Ceremony

MIDNIGHT ~ General Public Departs (5 hours to go!)

12:30 am ~ DJ Rod's "Buck On - Five Off!!!
 Music Request Auction"

1 am ~ Team Flamingos "Pink Flamingo Lap"

1:30 am ~ Team Extreme Fitness Martial Arts
"Fitness Lap" - get ready to work it!

2 am ~ Las Mamacitas Scavenger Hunt

2:30 am ~ Sailin' For a Cure Piggyback Lap

3:30 am ~ John V serves up 'A Buffet of (Jimmy) Buffett'

4:45 am ~ Closing Ceremony

5 am ~ 2011 Relay Ends

Descriptions of Contest, Activities and Theme Laps


BEST JUDGING Updated for 2011
A panel from Las Mamacitas - the 2010 Relay #1 fundraising team will be judging the following teams & sites:

Best Themed Tent Site
Best Cancer Awareness
Best Team T-Shirt
Best Birthday Hat
Best Team Spirit
Best 'Stuff' For Sale
Best Bribe

Miss Relay
Men please help us raise money for the American Cancer Society by competing in the Miss Relay Contest.
Contestants will take one lap around the track and collect as much money as possible from the general public.
Bring a purse to collect money from fans and admirers. (Cheating is allowed, so purses may have cash in them at the start!)
The “beautiful lady” who collects the most money wins the title of Miss Relay!!!

Good-Luck!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Last Call For Theme Lap / Activity Sponsors

We're putting out the last call for teams to volunteer to sponsor either the following Theme Laps, or activities. We are trying to keep these activities as simple and inexpensive as possible, while still keeping them fun and engaging. (Maybe this is why there isn't a three-legged race game for the Wii, or bobbing for apples!!)

Teams are needed for the following theme laps:
12:15 am, Conga Lap - This one is HOT-HOT-HOT - colorful costumes, marraccas, and the sponsoring team leads all the other participants in Newtown's largest conga line - EVER!!!
2 am, Baseball Cap Lap - bring your favorite cap and show it off as your team leads participants around the track.
3:30am, Limbo Lap - how low can you go at 3:30am??!! We'll find out as you encourage walkers and participants to limbo down as they circle the track.
4:30 am, as the first light of morning hits the horizon, don your most patriotic colors in every fashion - hats, scarves, shirts, shoes, or just carry or wave the stars and stripes in any configuartion as we start winding down our Great American Picnic circling the track in patriotic style!

We need temas to participate in the Luminaria Committe's Scavenger Hunt at 2:30 am. This will probably engage most of your team for part or all of the half-hour.

We're also looking for additional ideas for on-stage entertainment - if any team members have special talets to show off, please contact John to determine if it's appropriate for our main stage.

And any teams that want to offer their own ideas for activities - egg race, water balloon toss, three legged race, etc. in the picnic theme are welcome to do so. Just email John Voket through the Relay email system by Thursday, June 11.