MHS track teams 'Run
for Hope'
On March 23, 2006, about 80 students on the Middletown High
School girls and boys varsity track teams participated
in the Run for Hope to benefit the American Cancer
Society. Students ran about one mile, with coaches and
police escorts, to Orange Regional Medical Center's
Horton campus in Middletown carrying daffodils. Once
there, flowers were delivered to cancer patients.
"This is a great,
positive thing you're participating in," David Coates,
Athletic Director, said to students prior to
the run. "Give yourselves a round of applause."
Laura Lopez, a
representative from the American Cancer Society, was
also on hand for the event. "Middletown is filled with
energetic students devoted to the cause," she said.
Daffodils are the
flower of hope, and the American Cancer Society
organized Daffodil Days to raise awareness and money to
fight cancer. Similar runs are being hosted throughout the Mid Hudson
Valley this spring.
