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This coming weekend, the American Cancer Society is hosting it's annual Relay for Life in our home town of Willow Glen.  If you aren't familiar with the relay, teams of 8 raise money for cancer research and walk with other cancer survivors, their friends and families for 24 hours.

I'm really excited about it because Holly and I are doing a Survivor Lap prior to the main event kicking off.  Unfortunately, a lot of people can't say that.

This year the heads of the event are expecting close to 1,000 people, mostly people from the community, to walk and show their support.

Leading up to the event, Dave Keller, who manages the awesome Willow Glen Extra site, suggested that we build a Twitter bot to help people at the event communicate with one another.  With 1,000 people floating around a high school track, sleeping in tents, it will be hard to find people you know in other groups.  Twitter for good, so to speak.

The Bot is now live.  If you are living in Willow Glen and happen to be at the Relay for Life this weekend, do this:

1. Sign up for Twitter
2. Follow WGxRelay - To get the most out of this on Saturday, follow by your phone
3. Send your updates of where you are to the community by texting @WGxRelay to 40404

Couldn't be simpler.

We are looking forward to seeing you on Saturday night if you are in the area.

If you'd like to make a donation to the Relay for Life, you can do so here. - Thanks!