"Bailey Lane Roofers" Nail Down Help for Cancer Patient

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Danny Epplin, who lives along Rt. 51 near the Sunfield Wye north of Du Quoin, was diagnosed last year with renal cancer and is undergoing treatments. He said part of the tumor is inoperable, so doctors are attacking the cancer with chemotheraphy, which leaves him weak and tired.

For the past two years he has wanted to re-roof his house. Neighbors and friends--many of them members of the Vancil family who live on or around Bailey Lane, knew about this.

As the sun rose over his house Tuesday morning, a dozen of those neighbors--husbands, wives and children--showed up with hammers in hand to nail down the 80 bundles of shingles it would take to reroof the house. Among them were Du Quoin High School music director Denise Smith, husband Tim and longtime Du Quoin Board of Education member John Vancil. The "Bailey Lane Roofers" were going to lay down their hammers in the heat of the day and return late this afternoon to finish the job.