Blackmer has continued its involvement with the campaign to raise breast cancer awareness by donating a transport pump for use on a pink breast cancer awareness fuel oil truck. The truck is owned and operated by Rymes Propane & Oil of Keene NH, and was put into service June 1, 2007. This latest pink delivery truck is the continuation of a program initiated by Jim Rymes, fleet and bulk plant operations manager for Rymes Propane & Oil, with the funds raised benefiting the American Breast Cancer Foundation.
In 2006, Rymes put his idea into action with the debut of the company's pink LPG bobtail, to which Blackmer donated a TLGLF3 LPG pump and 2" bypass valve. For this latest effort, Blackmer donated a TXD2.5A-AVB pump. The truck was built by Boston Steel of Malden MA, and all vendors in the project either donated truck equipment or supplied it at, or below, cost. Boston Steel in turn gave the equipment savings directly to the American Breast Cancer Foundation.
Rymes Propane & Oil will donate one penny for every gallon pumped by the truck to the campaign for breast cancer awareness. With this truck capable of pumping more than 30 million gallons over its service life, that would mean an estimated donation of at least $300,000. All of the donations will be used for the American Breast Cancer Foundation's national “Key to Life Program,” which provides funds to women and men in need of breast cancer screening and biopsies.
For more information on the American Breast Cancer Foundation, visit www.abcf.org or call (410) 825-9388. For details on the TXD pump, phone Jim Becker at (616) 475-9390.