Only a few days remain until the 4 Wheeling for a Cure benefiting St Jude Children's Research Hospital. See more info below for the full schedule of events! Share with your friends! We hope to see you there!
The community is invited to join Overly's OFFROAD and the Rattle Rock Jeep Club on Saturday, April 11 at Wind Rock Park in Oliver Springs , Tenn 37840 to raise funds to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. This third annual event is being held in memory of Maryville native Brendle Sara Overly, who
passed away at the age of seven in 2003 after a brave fight with cancer. Her parents, Brian and Janet Overly of Overlys OFFROAD in Friendsville, Tenn., started this yearly event in order to raise funds in hopes of finding cures and saving future children.
The event will start at 9 am. There is a Wind Rock Day Pass that is $17.00 for Adults and $8.00 for children 12 yrs and under. This will need to be purchased if you intend to go past the Trailhead.
Starting at 10.00 am is the RattleRock Club exhibition on the legendary RattleRock Trail.
The Knox Off Road Club will sponsor the Poker Run . This event starts at 11.00 am and finishes at 2.30 pm. There will be a KOR sign up table with all information required.
The ET4WD Club will sponsor a RCR - Remote Control Car Race at 1.30 pm. There will be an adult and kids class. There will be a ET4WD sign up table with all information required.
There will be a BERG Pedal Kart Inflatable track set up for all day fun for adults and children.
Partons Smokin Butz BBQ will be present to help fill you up, selling sandwiches etc for the day.
We want to encourage the community to come out and join us for a fun day and help us raise our goal of $20,000 for St.Jude, " says Brian Overly. " We are thankful for everything that St. Jude did to help us with Brendle and want to make sure that other families enduring the difficult time that we did have the support that is needed,and this event will help us provide the funds that it takes."
In addition to Brendle Sara Overly, the event is also being held in memory of DA Young charter member of RattleRock Club, Jim Tunnell owner Jims OFFROAD, and Kenneth Spence owner Spences 4 Wheel Drive.
Event T-shirts are available for purchase as well to help raise additional funds. Shirts are $20.00 adults and $10.00 kids. Event stickers are $3.00 each or 2 for $5.00. We will be selling Raffle tickets for $1.00 for the huge raffle to be held at 5.00 pm sharp. There will be a 50/50 raffle also.
For those not able to attend the event, a website has been set up to give donations of any size to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Please visit http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?fr_id=24810&pg=entry to make a donation.
For more information about the event, please call Brian Overly at 865-308-3310 or Janet Overly at 865-898-4866 or visit http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?fr_id=24810&pg=entry.