Annual Touch-A-Truck Brings out Hundreds to Walker Park

By Lauren Lotz

The parking lot was jam-packed with an ambulance, backhoe, crane, dump trucks, fire trucks, limousine, natural gas powered cement truck, police car and motorcycle, residential trash truck, school bus, semi-truck, tractor, TV camera truck and vactor truck all for this year’s Touch-ATruck event.  The new venue, Walker Park, again proved to be a memorable event for kids in the Lincoln Way area with over 500 people in attendance. 

Throughout the day, the young attendees were able to experience each of these vehicles or  machines up close.  Kids were able to honk the semi truck’s horn, turn on the lights and sirens  on the police vehicles, climb on top of the fire truck, be mesmerized by the party lights in the limo, view the video equipment in the TV camera truck, as well as sit in the cab of the vehicles  o pull and poke on things as they like. 

Lisa Durcan, Recreation Supervisor for the New Lenox Community Park District added, “We are so thrilled that the forecasted rain passed us and it turned out to be a beautiful day.  It was such an amazing event to see so many families and businesses participate in this event to experience the thrill of our Touch-A-Truck event”.  The New Lenox Community Park District would especially like to thank all of the municipalities and businesses that participated. 

These groups included the Maintenance Department for the New Lenox Community Park District,  Village of New Lenox, New Lenox Police and Fire Departments, New Lenox Township, Leonard Motor Express, Inc., New Image Limo, Ozinga Ready Mix Company Concrete, Quality Crane Service and Waste Management.