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Paint the Town Purple

To all the shop and business owners and businesses of Kilkenny: We're asking you to help us paint the town purple on 20 and 21 July for Relay for Life Kilkenny!

Purple is the colour of HOPE, the colour our survivors wear as they walk the track and the colour we'd love to see all over Kilkenny while our Relayers are walking the track at The Watershed.

We're asking you to put your best purple merchandise in the window that weekend, or put purple balloons or decoration in your windows or somewhere that the public can see it. We want to show our survivors that the people of Kilkenny are behind them 100% and that we stand together to fight back against this terrible disease!

Email us a photo of your display to relaykkmedia@gmail.com or upload it to Facebook or Twitter and use hashtag #relaykk so we can see your displays.

If you would like a poster to put in your shop window to let the community know that you plan to go purple this weekend, just email relaykkmedia@gmail.com and we'll send you one that you can print off and display.

The survivors of Kilkenny will select the winner form all of the entries, which we will announce on Sunday the 21st.

Our Youngest Relayer's Adventures with the Hope Monks

A story from Joanne Brennan, our Survivor Chair this evening:

"I'm a big believer in fate, Que Sera Sera and things happening for reasons, so will just share this little story..... 

Earlier this afternoon my little girl whilst under the watchful eye of her dad (although I reckon he was watching the match more than his child) managed to get into the room where I have all my Relay stuff stored. She found the Jerpoint glass pebbles and monks and must have had a field day throwing them around the room cos she does love throwing things around, and it was only when she came out to me in the garden with a handful that I realised what was going on! 

Anyway, I managed to collect them all up, the lady in Jerpoint told me that they had done a few extra for is for free, so I reckoned that once I had collected and accounted for 260 then that was job done.  

I've just put Elaine to bed and tidied up her toys and found another little monk, only this one didn't have a happy face, it had a sad one like the Jerpoint worry monks, even though it was purple and in the box with all the others.  I've gone through them all and it is the only sad one in there.  It was like she had found that one and purposely taken him out and hid it to prevent a survivor picking it up on Saturday.  

Now a complete coincidence it might be, but I prefer to think of it as a little sign that what we are doing is meant to be done and it will be brilliant. 

G'Night, God Bless!"

We loved that story. At 18 months, Elaine is a true Relayer. Please sponsor our little quality control Relayer on her mission to make only happy monks in this world! She's not only keeping survivors from the sad monks but doing her own sponsored lap on Sunday!!

http://www.mycharity.ie/event/elaines_relay_for_life/