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PHOTOS COURTESY OF TPAC
Clockwise, from top: trucks line up before
the 2014 TPAC's start; Southside Electric
Cooperative CEO Jeff Edwards congratulates
TPAC organizer Sheila Jones on
receiving the Electric Cooperatives' Good
Samaritan Award; a TPAC dump truck
decked out in breast-cancer-awareness pink.
truck mechanic; his father Kenneth owns
a truck shop and his uncle Kermit is a
truck salesman for Virginia Truck Center.
Trucking is a Jones family tradition.
" Our goal that first year was to get 40
trucks in the parade and to raise $10,000, "
says Jones. " There had never been a Relay
For Life team in Charlotte County that
had raised $10,000 in one event. "
The event includes a pre-parade picnic
for participants held at Jones' home property
in Phenix, followed by the parade
through the small Southside Virginia
hamlets of Phenix, Charlotte Court
House, Drakes Branch and Keysville.
Each truck in the parade displays a banner
- handmade by Jones and her Relay
For Life teammates. Each banner features
the name of a friend, family member or
loved one who has succumbed to cancer,
or who is a cancer survivor.
The truckers pay $250 each for the
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banners, and this is the primary source of
the event's funds that go toward the fight
against cancer. Each truck in the parade
has a banner; truckers can opt to buy two
for their vehicles.
" For example, a person might want to
honor or memorialize a family member,
but not have a truck. They can sponsor a
banner and get a trucker who'll be in the
parade to carry their loved-one's banner, "
says Jones.
The TPAC team also concocts other
fund-raising mechanisms each year. In
2014, for example, Abilene Motor
Express offered to pay $100 for each person
who had his or her head shaved onsite
at the TPAC event. " We raised $5,100
that way, " Jones adds.
The first year's goal of $10,000 was
reached with the help of Sheila's father,
Hampton Dodd, and Virginia Truck
Center, for which Darrin's uncle, Kermit
Jones, works as a salesman. " They picked
up the tab for all the expenses, so that all
the money generated by the project could
go toward our goal, " Jones says.
Since then, the TPAC event has grown
each year. In 2014, TPAC raised $83,000,
with 151 trucks participating. Since its
inception the TPAC event has raised
more than $575,000 for the American
Cancer Society. All of the money generated
by the TPAC event now goes toward
cancer research. By any measure, this is a
huge contribution to the fight against
cancer. Considering TPAC's rural
Southside Virginia origins, it's a doubly
impressive accomplishment.
Participation in the event's planning
has grown in proportion to the parade's
dimensions, according to Jones. " We now
have more than 40 people on the TPAC
team helping with planning the events, "
she says.
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