{"id":12949,"date":"2012-04-27T01:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2012-04-27T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:51:50","slug":"team-bodig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/team-bodig\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Bodig"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Clarissa V. David
\nReporter<\/div>\n

\"Team\u00a0MMAC Committee’s note: As we mark the 10th anniversary of the Marianas March Against Cancer, the 2012 MMAC committee would like to honor and recognize the efforts of our teams for their untiring support in the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n

While Team Bodig has been actively participating in the annual Marianas March Against Cancer since its inception in 2003, it was actually created in 1999 back when the event was still under the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n

Led by team captain Jocelyn Deleon Guerrero and co-captain Bridgette M. Camacho, Team Bodig was named after and inspired by the matriarch of the family who was diagnosed with cancer in 1994 and succumbed to her battle in 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was our mother’s persistence and determination that we all got together as a family to join this great cause,\u201d said the team, referring to Gramma Bodig whom they described as \u201ca very strong woman in every sense of the word.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team maintained that Gramma Bodig \u201cknew the importance that family played in a cancer patient’s life,\u201d thus reaching out to their extended families for support, and also for Bodig’s daughter who fortunately survived cancer.
\n\u201cJust by reaching out, our team has grown and keeps on growing,\u201d said Team Bodig as they acknowledged the \u201coverwhelming support\u201d of families and friends, who gave them the motivation, courage, and strength to join the fight against the deadly disease.<\/p>\n

According to the team, their favorite segments of MMAC are the \u201csolemn\u201d luminary ceremony and the survivors’ walk.<\/p>\n

For this year, Team Bodig plans to sell food and drinks at their tent. They also held several fundraising activities, including \u201cThirsty Thursday\u201d held at Naked Fish Bar & Grill last April 12 and a coin drive by the Microl Toyota intersection on April 20.<\/p>\n

Although Team Bodig noted that forming a team \u201cis no easy task\u201d as it requires \u201ccommitment, dedication, support and most of all, cooperation and understanding,\u201d they also emphasized that having more teams take part in MMAC will aid in raising more funds for a \u201cgreat and worthy cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should come together as one community this time of year, to remember our loved ones who lost their battle as we light a candle in their memory. We should also come to honor our survivors and to instill in their hearts that there is always hope, and that we must continue to have faith,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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