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Ride 2 Provide is Saturday in Markle

Douglas Sagstetter (left) and Nate Mills.
Douglas Sagstetter (left) and Nate Mills. Photos provided.

The ninth annual Ride 2 Provide will be held Saturday, Aug. 16, in Markle, with proceeds earmarked for two area residents being treated for cancer.

This year's recipients are Douglas Sagstetter and Nate Mills.

The day begins with a motorcycle ride. Participants can check in from 11 a.m. to noon at Markle Park. The first bike will leave at 12:10 p.m., and the last bike will return to Markle Park.

All other events of the day are open to the public, whether or not they ride.

In the only event to be held outside Markle Park,
Koozie's in downtown Markle will host a dart tournament from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contact Nick Ormsby at 515-3754 to enter.

A mush ball tournament will take place at the park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. To enter, call Darren Goeglein at 750-8185.

Bingo games will be played at the park from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call Dixie Oldham at 758-3394.
A corn hole tournament will be held at the park from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Entrants should contact Amy Weller at 388-6888.

A live auction begins at 4 p.m. at the park, and a meal will be served beginning at 4 p.m. The cost of the meal is a free will donation, and carry-outs are available.

Those bringing a canned good for the local food pantry will receive a free raffle ticket for a $25 gas card.
There is a limit of five raffle tickets per person.

Anyone unable to attend the day's events can send donations to Ride to Provide, 3398 E. Markle Rd., Huntington, IN 46750, or call Lesa Asher at 758-3437.

Sagstetter was recently declared cancer free after battling Stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which was diagnosed in July 2013. A recent college graduate with a full-time job, Sagstetter was forced to cut his hours in half because of severe side effects from chemotherapy. As expenses mounted, he broke his lease on his home and moved back in with his parents. Although he currently has a clean bill of health, he is deeply in debt.

Nate Mills, a 40-year-old son, husband, father and grandfather, has been told that his cancer is not curable and that doctors can only treat the symptoms and try to prolong his quality of life.

Mills was diagnosed with melanoma in the fall of 2000 and was later declared cancer free. In the spring of 2012, a tumor was found near his knee; a bone biopsy revealed Stage 4 melanoma. The melanoma cells were in his bloodstream and tumors appeared throughout his body. He underwent an aggressive treatment in Chicago.