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This week Throwback Thursday is celebrating the life of one of the Border's biggest fundraisers, the Relay for Life.
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After starting more than a decade ago with just 400 participants and raising $6500, the event has now grown to include more than 2000 people and fundraise up to $350,000 each year.
This year's event will be held this weekend.
2009 - Committee members Anne Hayward and Prue Densley promote the relay.
2009 - The first lap by suvivors and carers
2011 - Wodonga cancer survivors Denise Arnel and June Joynson sign the memorial cloth.
2003 - Peter Drummond skips merrily as Phantom of the walk.
2009 - On their first lap is Maree Dynan, Stuart Cameron and Vivienne Nicol.
2009 - Cooling down with some ice-cream is Aleisha Coyle, 6, and her twin sister Lauren Coyle, 6, from Wodonga.
2009 - Jack Radford, 16, from the 37 Army Cadets Unit doing his best drag impersonation.
Walkers at the Relay for Life.
2012 - Ian Jackson, Helen van Duursen, and Peter Bluck have been part of the Border Relay For Life since its inception. This year their theme was Flower Power.
2010 - Finn Kernaghan talks to the crowd before the walk of hope.
2010 - The candlelight ceremony of HOPE
2010 - The candlelight ceremony of HOPE
2010 - Amanda Stephens had breast cancer 5 years ago and is joined by her daughter Krystal Rigoni (left) and sister Libby Robertson (right) every year for the Relay for Life.
2010 - Keeping hydrated on the relay was Sally Robinson, 20, and Jack Northam, 24.
2012 - Miss Relay entrants Cody Hunt, and Kristian Cary, both of team Onesies
2012 - Miss Relay entrant for the Lavington Mercy Centre team. His nickname is "princess".
2004 - Clive Faul from Relay for Life got more than he bargained for by recruiting staff from the Tavern to enter the 24 hour charity event. Nicole Tyron squeezes the toes of her staff mates, Isabel Paton and Lauren O'Connell.
2000 - Research nurses Debbie Wiltshire and Nicole McMonigle raising money at the new private hospital.
2002 - Candle light vigil signifying HOPE for the future
2002 - Albury's Susan Macdonald, with daughters, Erin, 5 and Claire, 2, during the HOPE ceremony.
2009 - Dressed brightly are Wodonga's Kate Cochrane, 17, Alex Harraway, 16, and Lucy Chapman, 17.
2009 - Albury councellor Daryl Betteridge dressed as a nurse being held up by Albury Liquer Accord Members.
2009 - Border Mail columnist Mick McGlone interviews the Miss Relay Pageant competitors as MC of the competition.
2009 - The Thurgoona Daffodils team members Karyn Kluver and Nicole Polkinghorne showing off the underwear they made for the decorated bra and underwear competition.
2009 - Jessica Brunow, 12, with her grandmother and cancer survivor June Brunow
2009 - Wodonga's Lorenne Clarke, 23, resting after doing some laps
2009 - The Happy Hawaiians Breanna Milthorpe, 12, Bronwyn Holloway and Fern Freund (from Rutherglen and Jindera).
2009 - Lianna Warburton, 17, Claire Aldridge, 17, Chris Young, 17, Audrey Bowman, 16, Marcie McAuliffe, 17, Chris Webb, 17, and Victoria Harris, 16.
2009 - Showing some leg to try and get donations is Ross Evans from Albury.
2009 - Albury's Vicki Poole, Albury's Brad Tyrell in his drag creation and Wodonga's Sally White.
2009 - Jindera's Helen Van Duursen with her friend Brendan O'Farrell, who is trying to cool down by letting some air up his skirt after walking around raising money in drag.
2009 - Danielle Roberts lights a candle for a family member.
The Relay for Life committee
105.7 The River's ''Todd & Ang' from the morning crew prepare to cut Relay chairman Clive Faul's hair for the Relay for Life.
2006 - Curves in Wodonga organising a market night to fundraise for Relay for Life. Pictured is Annette Cooper, Hailey Lewis, Narelle King, Kristy Wright and Trish Rogers.
2006 - Cancer patient Jayden Van Werkhove is swung high by Amanda Van Werkhoven and Carly Flynn.
2005 - Dancing Queens Jenny Elsbury, Jenny Kneebone, Megan Teefey, Kate Spargo,and Terri Fraser.
2008 - Miss Relay Pageant competitor Eric Turner gets cheeky.
2008 - Brazilian exchange student Raphael Nogueira, 17, was talked into the Miss Relay pagaent.
2007 - Kitty Bryan, Aimee Hollonds and Jessica Elias blow bubbles around the track.
2010 - Jill Brown, owner of Studio 586, gets ready to cut the hair of Liam Elligate, 7, who is being treated for cancer.
Entrants to the Miss Relay Pageant
2008 - Getting close in the Miss Relay pageant are Mark Hogben (in pink wig) and Cameron Thompson (in leather).
2008 - Rutherglen's Avice Warnock and Corowa's Lyn Jones walked for the Uncle Toby's team in their PJs.
2008 - Corowa's Kirsten Lyndon, 16, and Hannah Regan, 17, came prepared with a big tent.
2008 - An exhausted Matthew Mills, 10, of Corowa, needs a nap on mum Karen's lap after walking all day.
2006 - Relay committee getting ready for the big event.
2012 - Committee member Caroline Sale promoting the next event.
2011 - Chloe Duffy, 3, practiced doing the plank with her mum's team, who were attempting the world record at the Relay for Life.
2012 - Miss Relay pageant winners Kayne Turner, 16, (of Sandy Creek )and Mason Turner, 16, (of Mitta Mitta), raised the most cash (both in blue). Most popular team was Jindera's James Vogel, 16, and Albury's Aiden Newman, 17 (in red).
2012 - Teletubbie Linc Chapman, 18, with Trinity Anglican College team members Michela Fortini, 17, Jemma Kilpatrick, 16, Rebecca Cottrell, 17, Samantha Holland, 16, Tom Coates, 17, and Campbell Ingram, 17.
2007 - Kath (Deb Milnes ) and Kim (Beth Trevor) are walking this year's relay with teammates Lyn Mullavey, Cecily McKenzie-McHarg, Anne Hayward, Nicole Tricker, Meg Sprouster and Maree Gardner.
2008 - East Albury IGA teammates Eddie Mathews and Monica Pearce found a quick way to get around.
2002 - Cancer survivors Hans & Marie Svarts, from Wodonga.
2010 - Miss Relay entrant Ben Colley, 16, blows a kiss
2012 - Culry's Crew team members Tim Soul and Scott Bensley.
2002 - Michael Grayling, from Melbourne, is a testicular cancer survivor of 22 years. He has been in 15 Relay For Life events this year, a total of 2360 laps so far.
2006 - Herbies Lovebugs team members Barbara Emery (Wodonga) and Leisa Harris (Wodonga)
Team dress-ups
2002 - Colleen Leahey , Helen Russell & Shirley Kibble.
2010 - Miss Relay Pageant's Brian Allen, 16, from Wodonga
2012 - "Buzz Lightyear" Nick Georgiou soars through the Relay with his son "Tigger", otherwise known as Alexander Georgiou, 16 months.
2010 - Miss Relay pageant's Jack Fitzpatrick, 19, from Wodonga
2002 - Susan Stevens, Craig MacLeod, Craig Underhill and cancer survivor Judy Fraser getting ready for one of the first Border Relay events at the Albury racecourse.
Former Olympian Pat Scammell at the 2002 Border Relay for Life.
2006 - Cancer survivor Kaye Westmoreland from Wodonga.
2002 - Early Border Relays at the Albury racecourse were a dusty affair
CSU UniMed students (bottom) Kristen O'Connor, Kimberly Read, Tanya Trevena, (top) Jane Kok, Brett McRitchie, and Elisa Luck.
2012 - Hot for a Cure teammates Rebecca Sweeting, 13, Elyshia Poidevin, 14, and Hannah Thomas, 14.
2010 - Lavington's Andrew McLean watches Wodonga's Shaun Le Motte and Thurgoona's Tim Archer hamming it up for the camera.
2010 - Wodonga's Neil Thomson having his legs waxed by Wodonga's Larissa Kernaghan.
2006 - Part of the Bravehearts team is Ken Jones and his wife Fiona Jones who has survived Cancer. They are from Osbornes Flat.
2010 - Mitta Mitta's McKye Turner, 16, with his cousin Callum Turner, 19, and Callum's brother Brandon Turner, 16, from Kiewa.
2006 - The Devils and Angels team won best dressed
2010 - Tayah Spalding, 3, with her uncle Ricky Gunson, Tori Singleton, 10, and Jamey Pemmelaar, 18.
Wodonga Guides member Rochelle Smith, 7, with one of the scarecrows from their team "Our Backyard Tent".
2010 - Tamara Cikaitoga will be shaving her head after raising $2000 for Waldo's Wanderers teammates Sharyn Cikaitoga, Rosalia Cikaitoga, John Waldron and Kevin Waldron.
2010 - Lavington's Karen Wilson formed the team "Karen's Inmates" after battling ovarian cancer.
2006 - A member of the "Too Cool for Skool" tent is Wodonga Middle Years College teacher James Harrison taking it easy whilst someone else does the walking.
2006 - The "Camo Courageous" team consisting of Phoebe Hearps, 14, Alicia Kemp, 15, (at front), Erin Miller, 15, Sarah Thomas, 15, and Eidenne Pronk, 15.
The ceremony of HOPE
2005 - The O'Fairyans team members Alie Foden-Ellis, Sarina Smith and Karen Dixon, all of Wodonga.
Bravehearts fairy members Meghan Elkington (of Kergunyah) and Erin Miller (of Tallangatta).
2005 - The Berlei Girls team members Cinamon Bohr, Kerry Haskew and Wendy Horn.
2005 - Malfunctions Mehartys team members Wylie Jackson, Michelle Meade (both Wodonga) and Jeremy Moule (Kergunyah).
2009 - The candlelight ceremony of HOPE
2003 - Natalie Woods and Mim McDade from Country Hope taking a break from walking through the night.
2003 - Natalie Woods, Madeline Johnson, 12, Zandra Williams, 12, and Mim McDade.
2003 - Peter Drummond came as the Phantom of the walk.
2003 - Marian Steele and Di Wells push children Filippo Martonooti, 1, and Umberto Martonooti, 3, around the field.
2011 - The crowd listens to speeches by cancer survivors.
Click or flick through the gallery above to see the fun, frivolity and heartwarming ceremonies captured by our photographers.