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DISCOVER! | JULY 16, 2016
10 | Community
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER
Truck on
Commercial Chaos for a Cure Semi Poker Run set for Saturday, July 23
At a Glance:
One semi after another is going to be hitting
the road in Sioux Center on Saturday, July
23, all in an effort to raise money for a
good cause.
Commercial Chaos for the Cure is now in its
third year and it will feature a day filled with
a poker run for big rigs as well as a fun-filled
evening featuring a free-will dinner, games, a
bouncy house for the kids and some raffles.
The event kicks off on Saturday morning at 10
a.m. at the Sioux County Fairgrounds in Sioux
Center. Registration is $45 and includes a free
t-shirt and a goodie bag. All of the congregated
semis head out together at 11 a.m. for a poker
run around N’West Iowa.
They’ll be making stops at the Oak Street Station,
a new truck stop in Inwood, IA, and the
people there will be putting on a meal for the
drivers and the passengers.
Then it’s on to the fairgrounds in Rock Rapids.
“This year, we teamed up with the Lyon
WHAT: Commercial Chaos for A Cure: 3rd
Annual Semi Poker Run
WHERE: Begins at Sioux County Fairgrounds
in Sioux Center, IA
WHEN: 10 a.m., Saturday, July 23. Evening
activities begin at 5:30 p.m.
COST: $45 registration for Poker Run. Free-will
offering in the evening.
ONLINE: Find them on Facebook.
County Relay for Life team and they are going to
be putting on the stop in Rock Rapids,” said Paul
Schelling, the president of Commercial Chaos
for a Cure and a Sioux Center resident. “They
are going to do some sort of cupcakes so that
should be something fun and different.”
From there, they’ll make stops in Sibley, Hull
and then it’s back to Sioux Center where the
whole community is invited to join in the fun.
“We’ll have an opening speech, open up
the circus style games and the bean bag tosses
and Nerf guns, and we’ll open up the bouncy
house,” Schelling said. “Then we’ll have the
meal. It’s really just a time for people to come
and have a good time.”
There is no charge for admittance to the community
get-together, but the meal is a free-will
offering.
There will also be some raffles going on and
one of the biggest raffles they have this year is for
a golf cart.
All of the money raised goes to benefit the
June E. Nylen Cancer Center and a portion of
the fundraiser will also go to the Lyon County
Relay for Life.
The June E. Nylen Cancer Center is a place
near and dear to the heart of one organizer.
That is where Schelling received his treatments
when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s
lymphoma.
“I’m a trucker and I own a trucking company
now, and I was thinking while I was laying there
getting treatment and this idea popped into my
head for this event,” Schelling said. “I called
Dolan DeRoon. He’s a real optimist, like myself,
and I asked if he thought this could work. We
gathered some more friends and put together
the first event.”
Last year, they doubled the size of the event
from the first year and had 56 trucks and about
150 people at the evening event.
They hope to continue to grow it even more.
“We really want people to know that anyone
and everyone is invited to come to the free-will
meal and fun during the evening. We really
want to see more of the community come out,”
Schelling said.
The evening activities are scheduled to begin
around 5:30 p.m. F
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