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- 0:05Speaker 1: Convoy Against Cancer Truck Show returns to lad Written by
- 0:09Speaker 1: Shaw Local News Network, This article is being read by
- 0:13Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The twenty
- 0:18Speaker 1: second annual Convoy Against Cancer Big Truck Show rolls into
- 0:22Speaker 1: lad on Saturday, July eighteenth, bringing polish pickups, restored farm tractors,
- 0:27Speaker 1: fire trucks, and working vehicles from across north central Illinois
- 0:31Speaker 1: to Main Street, all to raise money for the American
- 0:33Speaker 1: Cancer Society. The free, family friendly show runs ten am
- 0:38Speaker 1: to three pm and has become a summer tradition in
- 0:42Speaker 1: the small community. Since two thousand and three, the event
- 0:44Speaker 1: has raised more than one hundred and twenty five thousand
- 0:47Speaker 1: dollars for the Relay for Life. The idea is to
- 0:51Speaker 1: show off all the working vehicles that are important to
- 0:53Speaker 1: their owners and to all of us for the part
- 0:56Speaker 1: each plays in our day to day living, says Phil Hawking,
- 0:59Speaker 1: the event's organizer. Entry is free for spectators. Vehicle owners
- 1:04Speaker 1: pay an entry fee, a direct donation to the American
- 1:07Speaker 1: Cancer Society and receive a dash plaque donated by Graphic
- 1:10Speaker 1: Electronics of Spring Valley. The day includes live music by
- 1:14Speaker 1: DJ Gary Swanson, door prizes, donated by local businesses of
- 1:18Speaker 1: fifty to fiftieth drawing food and event t shirts for sale.
- 1:22Speaker 1: A separate cruise in coffee and donut car show starts
- 1:24Speaker 1: at nine a m. On the north end of Main Street,
- 1:27Speaker 1: hosted by A and B Garage. For details call eight
- 1:30Speaker 1: one five three zero three three one two zero or
- 1:33Speaker 1: email AB Garage at yahoo dot com. For truck show
- 1:37Speaker 1: entry and information, called eight one five four eight eight
- 1:40Speaker 1: eight two four five eight one five eight nine four
- 1:42Speaker 1: two zero nine two or email howkingfour at comcast dot net.