Each year at Relay For Life York County, participants and donors remember loved ones lost to cancer and honor those battling the disease by dedicating luminaria. Luminaria, paper bags containing votive candles, are transformed, and illuminated after dark. Each luminaria is personalized with a name, photo, message or drawing in memory or honor of a […]
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What Is Relay for Life?
The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of York County will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at the Wells High School track. So far, participants have raised over $30,000, and are still striving to get to their goal amount of $75,000 to knock out cancer. It is never too late to join […]
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One man’s vision blossoms into global event
One person can make a difference. Nowhere is that more evident than the story of Dr. Gordon “Gordy” Klatt and the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, which started in Tacoma, Washington, as the City of Destiny Classic 24-Hour Run Against Cancer in 1985. In May 1985, Klatt spent a grueling 24 hours circling the […]
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‘Anything Goes’ begins at Ogunquit Playhouse
OGUNQUIT — The Ogunquit Playhouse sets sail with the Tony Award-winning “Anything Goes”, currently in production through July 9. This musical comedy stars Broadway’s Andrea McArdle as Reno Sweeney and twotime Emmy Award winner Sally Struthers as Evangeline Harcourt. This tap-happy classic finds a brassy nightclub singer, a starry-eyed stowaway and Public Enemy No. 1 […]
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Wells High graduates look to future
WELLS — “Excited and nervous” were the two words Clarisse Goncalves, a senior at Wells High School, used to sum up her feelings about graduation. Those feelings ring true for most high school seniors, as does the sentiment expressed by Sam Sayward, who is also a senior at Wells. Sayward said the thing he will […]
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Bikers ride for diabetes cure
WELLS — The fields and roads of the Wells Reserve at Laudholm were filled Sunday with hundreds of bikers of all ages, from different companies, clubs or teams, all riding for a common cause: ending diabetes. The annual Kennebunk Tour de Cure is a bike ride that’s part of a national effort by the American […]
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‘Embrace life with open arms’
WELLS — At Warrior Memorial Field Sunday afternoon, caps were flying long before the end of Wells High School’s 113th commencement ceremony. While the day was sunny, a strong wind blew caps off heads and twisted the red and white gowns around the patiently waiting, soon-to-be-graduates’ legs. Principal Eileen Sheehy joked, “Now my job is […]
