On Wednesday, she visited a Splitter’s Creek property that has supplied flowers to the cause for almost two decades.

Mrs Gibbons, who volunteers at the Cancer Council information centre at Murray Valley Private Hospital, said Friday marked 30 years of the awareness campaign.

“I’ve been a volunteer for four years and I’ve been involved with a Daffodil Day table at the Lavington Shopping Centre,” she said.

“I’m just overwhelmed with the amount of response we get from people.

“We have to keep going at this – I do know from personal experience that treatments and other aspects of managing cancer have improved so much, and that’s as a result of people donating.”

Mrs Gibbons said this year was made special by the upcoming opening of the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre.

“We are taking a tour of the centre on Thursday – it’s an amazing development,” she said.

“It’s been pretty exciting, you can only think there will be positive things to come out of it.

“I believe our role (as volunteers) might change a little bit in terms of being a bit more hands-on.”

The information centre for cancer patients will move from Wodonga to the new building when it opens in September.

It will be another first for the Albury branch of Cancer Council NSW this year – a car purchased with Relay for Life fundraising began transporting cancer patients this month.

Community programs co-ordinator Melissa Nixon said 18 new volunteers had signed up to be drivers, linking patients from as far as Walla and Corowa to treatment in town.

“We’ve roughly transported about 20 clients so far and it works out to be about 100 volunteer hours,” she said.

“We always knew there would be a lot of interested people because we were told the need was there.

“It makes a big difference for the carers and family members that were taking time off to transport people.”

Mrs Nixon said Daffodil Day was always important to support a range of different causes.

“Let’s paint the town yellow,” she said.