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Crazy Hats Top Night of Plant City Relay For Life Entertainment

The competition for best crazy hat highlights the age span that defines the Relay For Life movement. Old and young alike join in the fight to the finish line, in the race to find a cure for cancer.

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What keeps the participants going at the American Cancer Society's annual Relay For Life overnight fundraiser? Wherever it is, it's the ongoing entertainment and good-natured competitions that do the trick.

Count among them the "crazy hats" contest at the 2013 Plant City Relay For Life, where attendees old and young, representing their respective teams, took to the stage to vie for top honor.

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Shortly after Hunter Miller took first place for his team from Cork Elementary School, the youngster raised his hands in celebratory fashion, working the stage like a seasoned pro.

"I really like going up on stage and doing fun things," he said.

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As for wearing a funny hat and staying overnight at a Relay For Life fundraiser?

He's doing it, he said, to help find a cure, "so everyone can stay alive."

Placing third in the competition was the respresentative from Tomlin Middle School. Second Place went to Burney Elementary School.

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