Wilson Trailer’s “Block Out Cancer” Event Achieves October Goal

Throughout October Wilson Trailer worked to “Block Out Cancer” and requested support to help achieve their goal of filling all the punch holes on a Wilson livestock trailer that was sitting out front of their corporate office in Sioux City, IA.

Wilson Trailer’s livestock and gooseneck trailers have “punch holes” that allow airflow into the livestock trailers in the hot summer months. But in cold weather, these punches are covered with “Block-Out Plugs” to protect the livestock. A donation of $10 filled a small punch hole and a donation of $100 filled a large punch hole on the trailer. There were 1,300 small punch holes and 180 large punch holes and when all filled that would be $31,000. Wilson Trailer additionally agreed to match up to $31,000 in “Block Out Cancer” donations made in October.

The ”Block Out Cancer” goal was achieved and Wilson Trailer Company recently presented the June E. Nylen Cancer Center with the proceeds raised plus their match. The $62,516 in donations will help support the costs to renovate and expand the Cancer Center’s infusion mixing room and the medically integrated dispensary, two “behind-the-scenes” areas of the cancer center that critically support what the medical team needs to care for the thousands of patients treated each year.

“We were excited to use one of our livestock trailers to engage the Siouxland community in such a worthwhile cause,” says Tiffany Persinger, Vice President of Operations at Wilson Trailer Company. “Many of us know someone who has had cancer so supporting the June E. Nylen Cancer Center and its facility renovation project is a great opportunity for us to give back.”

Each day 150 people come to the June E. Nylen Cancer Center for hope and healing. Last year JENCC cared for more than 6,000 patients from the 15-county tri-state area who had nearly 40,000 patient visits.

“There has been a lot of innovation over the last several years in oral chemotherapy and immunotherapy as part of cancer treatment,” states Krista McCullough, Executive Director of the June E. Nylen Cancer Center. “Our medically integrated dispensary or MID has seen a 242% growth in the number of oral cancer treatment prescriptions filled for patients over the past 5 years and has outgrown the small space it was initially built in.

McCullough adds the Cancer Center will be soon starting a construction project that will move the MID to another area of their facility with more square footage, allowing the infusion mixing room to also expand and improve its workflow and efficiencies. The mixing room is where all chemotherapies and other infusion treatments are prepared for patients. The construction project to renovate and expand the infusion mixing room and the MID is estimated to cost $1.5 million.

“We are very thankful to our team members, customers, vendors, as well as all others who joined us in donating to block out the trailer in pink,” commented Persinger. “We are proud to be able to support the June E. Nylen Cancer Center in providing hope and healing to Siouxland patients.”