We welcome everyone to our 28th Annual It Only Takes a Spark Cancer Walk on June 13, 2025. Join the fun and enjoy the entertainment with Fireworks, Lap of Life, Silent and Live auctions, Carnival-like games, Activities, Food, and Inflatables!
SPONSORS:
2025 Campsite Happenings
2nd Chances: Food – Walking Tacos
Bulldogs: Campsite – Fish Tank Food – Pizza, Pop, Water
Bookends: Campsite – Facepainting Food – Hot Dogs, Smores Bars, Pop, Water
Living Word Lutheran Church: Campsite – Spin the wheel Food – Ham/Turkey Sandwiches, Baked Goods, Water with flavor packet
Marching Medics: Food – Spaghetti in a cup & Sno cones
Avera Medical Group Milbank The Grant County Review Berens Market Valley Queen Cheese Team Fischer Realty First Bank & Trust Twin Valley Tire, Inc. Linda’s Fashions Poet Stengel Seed & Grain Co. Accurate Tax & Bookkepping, Inc.
Illuminator – $500+
Dakota Granite Lewis Drug Whetstone Home Center Midwest Powersports, Inc. Food-N-Fuel Edward Jones Bien Pharmacy Milbank EyeCare Center Bjordahl Dental Care Milbank Family Restaurant
Hearwarmer – $300+
LaBolt Farmers Grain Whestone Valley Electric Coop Banner Associates, Inc. Mundwiler Funeral Home Coldspring Granite Eastside Carwash Valley Ag, LLC Border Lakes Insurance, Inc.
Trailblazer
Milbank House Movers J & J Earthworks Premier Tax Advising & Bookeeping Jaquet Machine Shop VanLaecken Orthodontics Conroy Eye Care Trapp Plumbing Company, Inc. Unzen Motors Mirror Perfections Ed Reiners & Sons, Inc.
We’d like to thank our Sponsors for the 2022 Cancer Walk! Come out and support all our teams on June 10 out at Lake Farley Park!
Torchbearer
Apex Ironworks & Fabrication Berens Warehouse Groceries EXIT Leading Edge First Interstate Bank Grant County Review Linda’s Fashion/Doug and Linda Buri Stengel Seed & Grain Doug Stengel Twin Valley Tire, Inc. Avera Milbank State Auto Insurance/Liberty Mutual Saputo
Illuminator
Bien Pharmacy Dakota Granite Company Bjordahl Dental Care First Bank & Trust Food-N-Fuel Midwest Powersports Milbank Eye Care Center Valley Dairy Supply Whetstone Home Center, Inc.
Heartwarmer
AutoMaxx CDJR Banner & Associates Border Lake Insurance Eastside Carwash/Westside Truck & Carwash Conroy Eye Care PC Lewis Family Drug Hicks Construction Mundwiler & Larson Funeral Homes Otter Tail Power Company Whetstone Valley Electric Co-op Coldspring Johnson Family Dental Valley Office Products
Trailblazer
Brewster Building Center, Inc. Farrell Auction & Real Estate Insurance Solutions Plus ITC J & J Earthworks Milbank House Movers, Inc. Mirror Perfections VanLaecken Orthodontics The Flower Shoppe Edward Jones Investments Homestead Animal Health Trapp Plumbing & Heating Unzen Motors
It Only Takes A Spark welcomed two new members to its board of directors at its November meeting. Kasey Klemm, a member of the Great Western Bank team, replaced Lynn Wientjes on the board, and Matt Scott, a former member of the board and State Auto team, rejoined this core committee and replaced Aaron Anderson. Other members of the board include Julie Landmark, president; Alex Pauli, vice president, and Ann Tuchscherer, secretary-treasurer.
The core committee encourages residents of Grant County who are diagnosed with cancer to apply for financial assistance through It Only Takes A Spark. The funds raised throughout the year are used to pay for costs associated with out-of-town appointments including gas and lodging, for cancer-related prescriptions, and for cancer-related clinic and hospital bills.
To apply for the funds a cancer patient needs to submit an application form, a release of information form and a pathology report. The two forms can be obtained from the hospital in Milbank or Ortonville, the clinics located in Grant County, the Milbank pharmacies, or the website takesaspark.org. The application can be mailed to PO Box 105 or can be taken to Val VanLith in the ICAP office in the courthouse. Any questions on this process can be directed to Ann Tuchscherer at 605-432-6023.
Although Covid-19 has hampered fundraising efforts, the core committee is hopeful that a cancer walk can be held June 11, 2021. As 2020 approaches its year end, the cancer walk committee encourages Grant County residents to consider making a tax-deductible contribution to offset the loss of revenue caused by Covid-19. Donations and memorials can be sent to PO Box 105, Milbank, SD 57252 any time. Other opportunities to give include Thrivent Choice dollars if one is a Thrivent member and the cans for cancer sponsored by Lewis Drug year round.
It is that time of year when more people pause to count their blessings. It Only Takes A Spark is one of the blessings in Grant County.
