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More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Revised ACS Relay Planned Like many events in 2020, the annual Relay For Life was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Oakdale-Riverbank-Escalon-Waterford event, typically held in late spring, could not be hosted in person this year. There were some outside fundraisers by local teams and some online special activities hosted by the parent American Cancer Society organization but no traditional 24-hour Relay that brought teams together in the all day, all night fight against cancer. This year’s Relay also featured a wrap up ‘drive-thru’ luminaria ceremony in September at the Community United Methodist Church at 1480 Poplar in Oakdale. The lighted luminaria bags, purchased in honor of someone fighting the disease or in memory of someone lost to cancer, lined the driveway at the church. Some d ....