D300 Relay For Life Raises $135,000 For Cancer

Almost 900 walkers in over 90 teams raised $$135,000 in pledges to fight cancer in the District 300 Relay For Life event at Jacobs High School in Algonquin Friday night and Saturday morning. Both numbers far excceeded last year's event. The 12-hour walk was one of the first of almost 200 scheduled in the Chicago area this month through August.

It was the fourth time groups of D300 students, teachers and staff trooped all night  to raise funds for cancer research and education.  Some were getting droopy at 5 am, an hour before the event's end.  They probably weren't as pooped as its founder at the first one, though.  In May, 1985, Seattle surgeon Gordy Klatt ran 83 miles in 24 hours to raise $27,000 in funds for the fight against cancer.