By BOB SHRALUKA
WZBD.com
The Decatur-Adams County Parks and Recreation Department, which been holding events during the warm-weather weeks, has a couple more coming up the first two Saturdays in August.
Touch-a-Truck will be held August 3, followed by cardboard boat races at the city pool on August 10.
A recent event which Chris Krull, the department’s director of leisure services, said was “a random idea,” provided an unusual soaking for youngsters at the city pool.
A Decatur Fire Department ladder truck tapped into a hydrant and from high up hosed down the youngsters (see photo).
“It worked out really well, the kids loved it,” Krull said.
TRUCKIN’: The fire department will be one of the “big ones” at Riverside Center on Saturday, August 3, for the park-rec’s Touch-a-Truck event from 9 to 11 a.m.
Youngsters attending will be able to see all manner of big and smaller trucks in the center’s parking lot, and be able to sit inside some of them.
Weather permitting, the Lutheran Air Helicopter is scheduled to touch down at 9 a.m.
Free donuts, milk, juice and coffee will be provided by the Sons of American Legion Adams Post 43 in Decatur.
Parking will be available in the grass field across Jackson St. from Riverside Center.
BOATIN’: Cardboard boat races will be held at the city pool on Saturday, August 10.
Competitors will report to the pool between 5:30 and 6 p.m., and pool doors will open to the public at 6. Racing will begin around 6:30.
Several awards will be given, including for the fastest youth boat and the fastest adult boat, the best themed costume, the people’s choice and the lifeguard’s choice.
A Titanic Award will also be given … to the boat which sinks the fastest!
For more details and/or to register, call Riverside Center, 724-2520.
