RFL Weekend: The Sunbeamer Camp

 

 

 The Relay Weekend has arrived, and on the track many dozens of teams have their campsites set up. This includes Team Sunbeamers, who have their camp set up in RFL Advocacy. 

With the theme this year being "Hope Floats," there are balloons that will take people to a few floating islands, each with information about cancer and treating it.

As with previous Sunbeamer camps, a big part of this campsite is the Memorial Garden, where numerous people who passed from cancer, including some particularly close to the team, are honored.

 

There is also the Hope Lodge. For several of the Sunbeamers, the fight against cancer is a personal one, either having suffered from it themselves, or having to care for someone who had.

It should also be noted that this year, the Sunbeamers didn't just build a camp, but were able to sponsor the sim.

By all means drop by today, and tomorrow, but don't forget to walk the track and see many other great campsites.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

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Bixyl Shuftan

A Loved One Remembered At The Relay

 

After my announcing that I was dealing with some personal tragedy, prayers and well-wishes have come in from numerous readers, notably from the Relay and my neighbors in the Sunweavers and Angels.  Of Team Sunbeamers, with the picture, she was added to the memorial garden at the campsite exhibit. 

The idea of virtual worlds was a bit beyond her, but knew I had friends here, and the good they were doing. I'm certain she well appreciates it. Thank you.

Bixyl Shuftan.
 

RFL: The Sunbeamer Camp

 

The Hopefest has started, and the Relay sims are open to all on the Relay teams, not just those on build teams. And the Newser is now free to reveal the Sunbeamer camp at RFL Celebrate.The work was done by Cynthia Farshore, Shockwave Yareach, Snowbuns (Skylark Lefavre), and Rita Mariner.

As before, there is the Memorial Garden, located in the back. There are various personalities whom have died of cancer over the years from Humphey Bogart to Roger Moore to Don Adams, to Jim Varney. This year, noted talk show host Rush Limbaugh joins the list. And as always, there's a space for Artistic Fimicloud, a noted member of the Passionate Redheads (the precursor to the Sunbeamers).

What's different this year, "and now for something completely different," is "The Prince and The Spot Game." To play the game, get the bracelet from the giver at the front of the camp, then head to the starting point. What follows is an interactive tale of a prince whom finds a spot on his face that he hadn't noticed before. The plot has a Monty-Pythonesque tone to it. As you proceed, you make choices. Make the wrong choice however, and you won't so much as get a chance to say "not dead yet." 

As of the writing of this article, Team Sunbeamers has raised over 817,000 Linden dollars. Can they hit one million (and make a certain fox live up to a commitment)?

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

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