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Touch a Truck event promotes child literacy

Your kids have the chance to exercise their love of big and not so big vehicles while also exercising their literacy skills on a Saturday morning next month.

The Touch a Truck committee is holding its sixth annual Touch a Truck event on September 21st between 10:00am and 1:00pm, on a cordoned-off section of Second Avenue, outside the library.

Committee president Linda Deraiche says in many cases,  participants get to climb aboard and explore the vehicles.

“We have a bunch of big trucks.  Toromont will be there with a big Caterpillar; Fountain Tire is there with a boom truck,” she outlines. “We have the emergency services so the fire truck, the ambulance, the police cruiser.”

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Moose FM and My Timmins Now Dot Com will also be there with one of our cruisers.

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Deraiche says no sirens will be used, because they frighten some children.

“And then we also have therapy dogs that the children can read stories to.  We have a book swap so you bring a book and exchange it for a new to you book.  We have a section where you create your own experience book, so it’s a craft that goes on.  We have face painting.  We have a bunch of draws and we also have a free barbecue.”

One of those draws is for an e-reader.

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