Hopkins County Relay for Life set for Friday

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Like so many other public events this year, COVID-19 has impacted Relay for Life, an annual event honoring cancer survivors in Hopkins, Franklin and Wood counties. This year’s event will still be held, just scaled back.

The event will still take place Friday, June 12, but instead of the traditional survivor lap and booths, there will be a survivor drive-by parade at Buford Park in Sulphur Springs.

Survivors are asked to wear purple or an old Survivor t-shirt and line up in their decorated vehicles in the visitor’s parking lot of Gerald Prim Stadium using the north entrance from Houston Street at 7 p.m. Friday.

The parade will begin at 7:30 p.m. Survivors will drive down Buford Circle and turn left onto Connally Street to League Street and return to Buford Circle.

Luminary bags, which will line the Connally Street parade route, are available for purchase to honor or remember those affected by cancer. Call Gina Giguere at 903-573-2064 if interested in buying one for $5 or three for $10.

Community members are asked to show their support by wearing purple and line the route with signs and noisemakers while maintaining social distancing guidelines.

Parking is available at the Central Baptist Church parking lots or along the south side of Buford Circle and either side of League Street.

An week-long online silent auction will be held starting Monday, June 15. Items will include a traveling slow cooker, donated quilt, handmade t-shirt rag quilt made with old Relay For Life t-shirts, Rodan and Fields beach bag, painting by local cancer survivors Jocelyn Jones, 11, and more.

For more information, visit the Relay for Life Facebook page at www.facebook.com/tricotx/ or the official Relay website at www.relayforlife.org/tricotx for a link and details Monday morning.