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Annual Touch-A-Truck fundraiser is Saturday

Riverside Raceway will be on site for the public to experience RC vehicles.
A variety of vehicles and many more family fun activities will take place.
The annual Touch-A-Truck to benefit the Jefferson DeFrees Family Center is on Saturday, June 6 at Betts Park.

The Jefferson DeFrees Family Center is bringing big rigs – and a touch of radio-controlled cars – to Betts Park this weekend.

The seventh annual Touch-A-Truck fundraiser takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday featuring trucks and vehicles of all shapes and sizes. A VIP hour will run from 9 to 10 a.m. with a ticket cost of $10 each. Admission after 10 a.m. is by donation. Children under 2 are free.

Vehicles expected to participate include trucks, trailers, tractors, tankers, race cars, water rescue vehicles, the Zem Zem Shriners and food trucks. Several children’s activities along with “Paint a Car/Smash a Car;” a basket giveaway and games. Marty’s Bubble Gum Machine will be available from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; a quiet hour for sensory sensitive children will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Freddy Frog’s Foam Fun will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Fair queens, dairy princesses, temporary tattoos and fairy hair stations along with other vendors, a fracking truck and sensory bins will also be on site.

Proceeds from this event will be split between the Jefferson DeFrees Family Center, the Imagination Library and the Kinzua Area Discovery Center.

In addition, Riverside Raceway will offer kids the chance to fully experience radio-control cars in action. Radio-controlled car owners are encouraged to contact Riverside Raceway at 814-706-1957 or visit the raceway’s Facebook page in order to participate in bringing their own cars to bash, show off setups, and let kids experience radio-controlled cars. A radio-controlled car demolition derby will run from noon to 2 p.m.

Starting at $3.50/week.

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