Lynn Relay for Life team holding fundraiser tonight

LYNN – Guy Moley’s Relay for Life team is teetering on a $10,000 edge and he thinks this is the year they will finally go over.”This will be our fifth year doing this and we’re just under the $10,000 mark,” he said. “I’m pretty psyched about that. I’m pretty confident we will go over the $10,000 mark this year.”Which isn’t bad considering there are only four plus one pint-sized walkers.Moley, his wife Brenda, his sister Jodi Comeau and family friend John Melanson along with Comeau’s 5-year-old niece Alexis make the team that walk in the Relay.This year’s Relay for Life will be held at Red Rock Park, 180 Lynn Shore Drive on June 8 beginning at 4 p.m. The Relay is the big dance so to speak but it is not the only event. Many teams, Moley’s included, have fundraisers leading up to the Relay. Moley and his team have been working hard on putting together two, the first one this evening.”The fund raiser will be at the Dockside on (229) Centre Street in Malden from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.,” Moley said. “They will donate 25 percent of all sales to the American Cancer Society.”The event will include a Red Sox ticket raffle, a 50/50 raffle, comedy by Jerry Caruso and Carl Phillips, and they will crown a 2013 King and Queen but participants will have to dance for the title. Moley said men will have to dance to an Elvis song, because he is the King of Rock and Roll, while women will dance to a Madonna tune. Whoever garners the popular vote wins.There will also be a country dance off with women dancing to Luke Bryan’s “Country Girl” and men doing a little Cotton-eyed Joe.”And we’ll have the 2013 Ms. Relay again,” Moley said. “That was a huge hit last year.”Three teams of women have a set time to whip one man into shape to participate in a Ms. Relay competition, Moley explained.”People have been asking me all winter if we were going to do that again,” he said. “People had been asking me all winter if we were having the fundraiser and I kept telling them not until April.”Moley will hold a second fundraiser on May 30 with slightly different competitions but all toward the same end, to raise money for cancer research through the Relay for Life.The team walks for Moley’s mother Irene, who lost her battle with esophageal cancer just three years ago, and Melanson’s wife Barbara and his mother Patricia.Moley freely admits that putting everything together for the relay and the fundraisers is a lot of work but for the family it’s a labor of love.”It’s a great night,” he said.To donate to Moley’s Relay for Life team or to join a team check out the Relay for Life website at www.relayforlife.org and enter your zip code for the Lynn event.Chris Stevens can be reached at [email protected].