Air quality concerns force postponement of Hummelstown Relay for Life event

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HUMMELSTOWN, Pa. — Editor's note: The above video is from June 8.

An American Cancer Society Relay for Life event scheduled for Friday in Hummelstown has been pushed back a day due to air quality concerns resulting from smoke from Canadian wildfires, organizers said Friday.

The event will now be held from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, according to organizers. It will still be located at Indian Echo Caverns, 368 Middletown Road, Hummelstown.

A second Relay For Life event in Lancaster County, which was already planned for Saturday at Conestoga Valley High School, will go on as originally scheduled, organizers said.

"Relay For Life is more than a walk," Dan Tobin, American Cancer Society director of integrated marketing, said. "It is a volunteer-led movement that unites communities to celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost, and raise funds to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families.

"Thanks to that shared passion, we are working to help advance the American Cancer Society mission through advocacy, research, and cancer support in an effort to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer."

Dollars raised each year by more than 250,000 Relay participants across the country help support the American Cancer Society mission in countless ways, including funding and conducting breakthrough research, providing education and advocating for the needs of cancer patients and their families, and providing essential services that assist patients and their families throughout the cancer journey.

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