Prince George is in the running to become the country's top Relay For Life fundraiser for the second year in a row.
That's according to early numbers from the Canadian Cancer Society, but the final tally won't be ready until early August said Davy Greenlees, volunteer committee co-chair for the Prince George event.
"It would be a really good feather in our cap to get it twice," Greenlees said."I think we'd be raising the bar yet a little bit higher for ourselves."
After the final lap on May 10, Prince George organizers announced teams had raised $468,233. Now Prince George is over the half-a-million-dollar mark, still under it country-topping $600,000 raised in 2014.
Greenlees hopes that number will grow even more, noting Prince George will accept donations until the end of July.
"If everybody pitches in just one dollar, how many people live in Prince George? We'd certainly have the first position," Greenlees said.
"It's kind of a guessing game but the word is that we're up at the top."
Despite some stiffer competition in other cities this year, Prince George is still looking strong.
"We're still ahead of them," he said. "I didn't think that we were going to have a chance of being that close to number one."
Prince George was also Canada's only 24-hour relay and Greenlees thanked the community for its ongoing support.
"More businesses and individuals who just are willing to give and willing to help out and willing to volunteer and it's just great to be part of this community to do things like this," he said.
"Prince George people, I think they just have a bigger heart. We're one of the most charitable cities in the country, probably the most charitable if you ask a lot of people."
Now, Greenlees is calling on new donors - and those a little slow on filing their funds raised - to get everything in by the end of July.
"We just really encourage teams that have done the fundraisers and companies that are matching funds... to get them in within the next month here so we can make sure our totals are up and get ready for next year and challenge everybody else to beat us."
In 2014, nearly 400 communities participated in Relay for Life, raising more than $42 million for cancer research.
