Relay for Life to mark

Fourteen teams with 166 people will gather at the Colfax High School track for the 17th annual Whitman County Relay for Life this Friday and Saturday, according to organizer Cozy Lueck.

Relay teams will be at the track from 5:30 p.m. on Friday until after the closing ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday.

Lueck said teams consist of participants that range in age from children to people in their 70s.

Games for children begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday and at 7 p.m. the opening ceremony starts. The U.S. flag will be raised and the national anthem will be performed by Katie Largent. The survivors and caregive...