The McGregor family got to see what dad gets to play in at work when they hopped into Bruce Power’s Lav Gen 2. Backseat from right, Banks, Keith and Nash with Cruz in the front seat.
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The weather held out for the fourth annual Touch a Truck event hosted by the Saugeen Shores Kin Club August 19 at Port Elgin Main Beach as hundreds of children honked, painted and posed inside and around their favourite vehicles.
From police cruisers to fire trucks to Bruce Power’s equipped Lav Gen 2, there was no shortage of vehicular inclusion. Christine Cooper of the Saugeen Shores Kin Club said that since they’re in their fourth year of hosting the event, it’s pretty easy to get people interested in getting involved and added that there were a few new things at the August 19 edition including Bruce Power’s mobile operation centre, a First Student school bus that was ready to be painted, as well as face painting, bouncy castles and even Thomas the Tank Engine in balloon form.
Proceeds from the event were in support of a new Kin Club Project, the Portraits of Honour, a 30 foot mural of fallen soldiers from the War in Afghanistan. The mural, painted by a local Kinsman, has already travelled the world. “It’s fundraising money for the Families of the Fallen Foundation so we’re going to be bringing that to Pumpkinfest,” said Cooper.
Thomas the ‘Balloon’ Tank Engine was giving out high fives to excited children and adults at Touch a Truck 2017 hosted by the Saugeen Shores Kin Club August 19 at Port Elgin Main Beach.
Kennedy and Kate Yeaman along with family members put their artwork on display on the First Student school bus at the Saugeen Shores Kin Club’s Touch a Truck event August 19.
The painted First Student school bus was a big crowd pleaser attracting children of all ages.
Rhyse and his sister Khloe from Kitchener played on equipment provided by Tennysons in Underwood at the Saugeen Shores Kin Club’s Touch a Truck 2017 at the Port Elgin Main Beach
From Town of Saugeen Shores work trucks to fire trucks there was plenty to see and touch at the fourth annual Touch a Truck event.
