\u201cFor me, I have had several people in my family who have battled cancer, my grandfather and my uncle passed away from it, my aunt currently is fight breast cancer,\u201d said Traywick. \u201c(Being Miss Relay for Life) helps give me a way to fight for them and let them know I am with them and beside them.\u201d <\/p>\n
Alongside their visits to Hope Lodge, the Relay for Life Queens do a lot of other community service. They do general community service around Chilton County. They do a Halloween costume fundraiser for kids on the Children\u2019s oncology floor at Children\u2019s Hospital in Birmingham, so they can dress up during treatment around Halloween. The leftover costumes for that go to other floors. They also help get together Christmas care packages. They also do community service in partnership with other organizations around Chilton County. They also help raise money for cancer research. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe wants to find a cure because she still has that passion; she doesn\u2019t want someone else’s family to have to go through what she went through,\u201d said Mays. <\/p>\n
Outside of Relay for Life, Traywick cheers on the varsity squad at Chilton County High School. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s helped me be more confident, cheering in front of people has helped me on stage,\u201d said Traywick. <\/p>\n
Traywick likes to hang out with friends and do crafty things. She will soon be attending cosmetology trade school alongside her other activities. Though unsure of which college, Traywick wants to go to college for interior design. She plans to try to cheer wherever she goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor me, I have had several people in my family who have battled cancer, my grandfather and my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[288,53294,9,24,63,122,124,123,5271],"class_list":["post-224804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-business","tag-chilton-county","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}