Sherry Glover Down is one of Tour de Kale recipients for 2008, she was diagnosed with breast cancer on January 7, 2008. She is undergoing three rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart to shrink the tumor before having a mastectomy. An implanted port has been placed for the administration of chemotherapy and a PET scan revealed two suspicious lymph nodes. A biopsy of the lymph nodes will be done when the mastectomy is performed. Surgery will be followed with additional chemotherapy and/or radiation.

    Sherry has driven a truck for nineteen years and is employed with Anderson Trucking. According to her physician she will not be able to work for at least a year. After taking twelve weeks of family/medical leave the company will no longer pay for her medical insurance. She has many bills to pay i.e., medical co pays, health insurance premiums, groceries, utilities, rent, etc.

 Nancy Towery is one of Tour de Kale recipients for 2008, Nancy has been a volunteer worker of TDK for 8 yrs. since the beginning in 2000. She helps operate a rest stop for TDK,  representing Wesleyan Child Development Center where she has been the Director since it’s opening in 1995. Half of the proceeds from TDK will go to Nancy to help pay off out standing Hospital and Doctor bills from her late husband Doug, who died suddenly in 2007 with no medical insurance.