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Pam Raquet, a sixth-grade teacher and cancer survivor, performs during the talent show Friday night at the Southeast Volusia Relay for Life fundraiser that raised $137,000 with a record 67 teams and some 3,000 people in attendance at Riverside Park. Above, a group of poodle skirt-wearing ladies dance to 1950s music. The Southeast Volusia chapter is among the highest grossing fundraising chapters in Florida and the largest among three in Volusia County.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Music means rhythm. And rhythm means life. And that's the point behind the "Rock the Cure" theme behind the 2010 Relay for Life cancer fundraiser.
Pam Raquet, a sixth-grade teacher and survivor of cervical and uterine cancer, as well as a brain tumor, understands the concept, which is why she wasn't just a volunteer, but even performed by singing a song during the talent contest.
"It's great seeing everybody here having such a great time, especially the kids," the 47-year-old teacher said.
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At left, New Smyrna Beach High School students perform and above, the older crowd dances to doo-wop music of a bygone era.
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Natalie Alonzo, 6, of New Smyrna Beach, performs a tumbling routine during the talent show Friday night during the Relay for Life fundraiser. Her mother, Deborah Alonzo, was one of the organizers of the campaign.
For the organizers of the 2010 Relay for Life campaign, the results spoke volumes: 3,000 people in attendance, 67 fundraising teams, $130,000 collected.
Deborah Alonzo, the relay event co-chair, said seeing the event come together as it did was a blessing and a living example of people helping other people.
Ruth Ann Yeats, chair of the 2010relay event, was ecstatic with the fund-raising results: "It shows the camaraderie of the community."
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Far left, Melanie Stawicki-Azam of New Smyrna Beach, a reporter with the Orlando Business Journal, attends the Relay for Life fundraiser with her two children, Stella, 3, and Sam, 2. Above, a night's hotel stay is auctioned off.
New Smyrna Beach resident Melanie Stawicki-Azam said she could feel that comaraderie.
"I like coming out and supporting the community," she said."
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