Truck Tales At The Truck Bash

Don’t miss the East Lyme Touch-A-Truck

The main event is, of course, Trucks! There is no better way to spend a day with your children than at the East Lyme Auxiliary Child & Family Agency’s Touch-A-Truck on Saturday, May 16, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at McCook Point Park in Niantic. Rain date is Sunday, May 17th.

Children will be able to climb, steer, blow horns, and imagine in an amazing array of trucks. There will be a bucket truck, cement mixer, satellite truck, paramedic van, police cruiser, party coach, aerial lift truck and many more. Upon entering the park, each child will be given a yellow construction hat on which they are to get the autographs of the truckers they visit.

Returning again for the eighth year, Wendy Nielsen and Terri Merola have done a yeomanly job at scheduling the many trucks and coordinating with the East Lyme Parks and Recreation Department. Each year, they have contacted the truckers, mapped the location of each truck, and welcomed the truckers early in the morning of the event. The delight the children take in the trucks is due to their organization and efficiency.

A new feature this year will be TRUCK TALES. Each participating vehicle will give a ten minute presentation of what the truck is called, what it does, where it “lives”, how it is constructed, and what the owners use it for. The schedule of presentations will be in the program booklet; so, don’t miss the “tale” your favorite truck has to tell! Also, greet each trucker and ask him to sign your hat.

Just a few of the special trucks in attendance will be Joshua’s Limousine’s brand new Party Coach, The Dunkin Mobil, The E.L. Parks and Rec.-All Terrain Vehicle, Mowers, and utility vehicles, and the always interesting WFSB- Channel 3 TV truck. This list is just a “teaser”; we have about 25 more vehicles for the children to explore.

Admission is $4 per person. Children under age 2 are admitted free of charge.
For more information, click here: http://childandfamilyagency.org