Touch-a-Truck Festival 2023

Please join us for the Memorial Library of Nazareth & Vicinity’s Touch-a-Truck Festival event! Touch-a-Truck Festival 2023 will take place on Saturday, October 7, beginning at 10:00am and ending at 2:00pm at Bushkill Township Park. This annual event is always highly anticipated and a huge hit in the community!

Last year the library welcomed over 1,000 attendees and raised more than $10,000 for the library’s mission to inspire and enrich the lives of the residents in our supporting municipalities.

We do this by offering valuable lifetime literacies, inclusive activities for all community members, and a commitment to serving our community.

This year, the first 100 attendees will get a free Huth Insurance backpack, and the first 500 attendees will receive a swag bag courtesy of Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital!

Saturday, October 7, 2023
10:00am-2:00pm
Bushkill Township Recreation Fields
1114 Bushkill Center Road
Nazareth, PA 18064

Thank you to our 2023 Touch-a-Truck Festival sponsors:

Ticket Sponsor:

Bronze Sponsors:

MLNV Loyal Partner:

MLNV Friend:

 

A2D Services

Astound Broadband

BAPL Bookmobile

BEI Electrical

Borough of Nazareth Public Works

Colonial Regional Police Department

Dunkin Community Cruiser

Fast Lane Towing and Transport

FedEx Freight

Fidelity Ice Cream Truck

Forks Township Police Department

Giant Direct Home Delivery

Giographic Outdoor Experts

Hecktown Volunteer Fire Company

Jennings Transportation

J.P. Mascaro & Sons; Solid Waste Services, Inc.

JoAnn DiFrancesca with a Living Quarter Horse Trailer

Junkluggers of Lehigh Valley

Just Born, Inc.

K&R Tree Service LLC

Kellyn Foundation

Kids Co-Op Gymnastics

LANTA

Lehigh Valley Bin Cleaning

Lower Nazareth Township Public Works

The McCann School of Business and Technology

Mike Ziegler Motor Home Rentals, Inc.

Moore Township Public Works

Muschlitz Excavating Inc.

Nazareth Borough Police Department

Nazareth Regional Ambulance Corps

Northampton Community College

Patrick McNealis Insurance and Financial Group

Penn Quaker Site Contractors, Inc.

Quality Carriers Inc.

Redbox+ Dumpsters of the Lehigh Valley

Rizz Containers & Disposal

Second Harvest Food Bank

Service Electric Cable TV & Communications

Two Men and a Truck

Upper Nazareth Police Department

Vigilance Hose Company Nazareth

Whitetail Disposal Inc.

What is Touch-a-Truck Festival?

Touch-a-Truck Festival is a great event regardless of age or gender!  Our volunteer coordinators work to include something for everyone.  Families, couples, teens, car and truck enthusiasts—all are welcome and will enjoy the day.

The first hour, from 10am-11am, has been designated as a quiet hour for children who need limited stimulation. No sirens or lights will be used.

Features you won’t want to miss include the following (pending):

• Craft Tent provided by Girl Scout Troop #8162
• Food trucks
• Karate demonstration from Action Karate
• A children’s bicycle raffle
• A braiding bar courtesy of the Career Institute of Technology
• Free Huth Insurance backpacks to the first 100 attendees!
• And much more!

Touch-a-Truck Festival is planned to ensure that every child can safely enjoy getting up close and personal with all sorts of vehicles and operators.

Food will be available during the event from the following vendors:

Big Poppa’s Backyard BBQ

Mattie’s Strudel Haus

Naz-O-Nut

 

Action Karate will offer a karate demonstration!

CIT will be there all day offering a braiding bar!

Girl Scout Troop #8162 will operate a kids’ craft tent!

The community will be raffling off two children’s bicycles to benefit the library. Tickets will be $3 or 2/$5.

Barbie and Spider-man will be taking photos with attendees from 11AM-2PM!

Please check back often for additions

Bushkill Township Recreation Fields

1114 Bushkill Center Road

Nazareth, PA 18064

Directly across the road from the Township Building and Police Headquarters.

Mapquest link to get driving directions HERE.

Parking is FREE and will be available in the field directly across from the Township Building and Police Headquarters; please follow the signs to our designated parking areas.   There will be a handicapped parking area close to the event entrance and clearly marked.

Tickets for the Touch-a-Truck Festival are available for purchase online and at the library:

$5 for one ticket (Tuesday, August 1st through Friday, October 6th)

OR

$20 for a family pack of five tickets (Tuesday, August 1st through Wednesday, October 4th).

All tickets bought in person can be purchased with cash, a check, or a credit card.

Children under the age of two are free.

Individual tickets may also be purchased onsite on the day of the event for $5 each

 

Click HERE to buy your tickets online!

Dear Community Partner,
Please join us on Saturday, October 7, as a community partner in the Memorial Library of Nazareth & Vicinity’s Touch-a-Truck Festival 2023. The event will begin at 10:00am and end at 2:00pm at Bushkill Township Park (1114 Bushkill Center Road, Nazareth, PA 18064). This annual event is a huge hit in the community; last year the library welcomed over 1,000 attendees and raised more than $10,000 for the Library’s mission!

If you have a vehicle or vehicles you’d like to show off, we know you’ll want to be a part of this special community event! Simply complete the Exhibitor Commitment Form to register your vehicle(s). For more information or questions, contact our Library Director, Holly Bennett at [email protected] or call 610-759-4932 x.6.

The Memorial Library of Nazareth & Vicinity is a registered not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We look forward to having you join us at Touch-a-Truck Festival 2023 as we fulfill our mission to inspire and enrich the lives of the residents in our supporting municipalities by offering valuable lifetime literacies and a community centric service approach.

See you October 7th!

Holly Bennett
Executive Director
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity

What’s expected: All participants are required to complete and submit the participation commitment form below. To streamline the event setup and load in, arrivals times will be slated for between 8am and 9am on October 7th. You will be assigned an exact time the week of the event.

We request that you have a minimum of one person with the vehicle(s) throughout the event which runs from 10am to 2pm. The event will end at 2pm. in a parade fashion as all vehicles are dismissed out of the parking lot while spectators watch this extraordinary line-up of vehicles. It is a fun end to a great event as horns are blown and engines are revving.

Logistics: All exhibitors will be contacted a minimum of 30 days prior to the event with final logistics.

Please click here to complete the required commitment form.

“Know before you go” exhibitor tips: Coming Soon!

Contact person: If you have additional questions, please contact our Library Director, Holly Bennett, at [email protected] or call 610-759-4932 x.6.

Participation as an exhibitor is FREE; please consider also being an event sponsor. Click HERE for additional details.

Touch-a-Truck Festival is a fabulous, fun experience for the entire community!  It is also the library’s largest annual fundraiser and part of our PA Forward Civic and Social Literacy programming efforts.  All proceeds from this event are dedicated to supporting the mission of the library:  “To inspire and enrich the lives of the residents in our supporting municipalities by offering valuable lifetime literacies and a community centric service approach.”

Touch-a-Truck Festival is a community effort.

Sponsorships are available in a variety of levels with pricing for every budget!

Click HERE for sponsorship packages and details.

For additional information or questions related to being a Touch-a-Truck Festival 2023 sponsor, please contact Holly Bennett at 610-759-4932 x.6 or email at [email protected].

Join the Memorial Library of Nazareth on Saturday, October 7, 2023 for this amazing annual community event and fundraiser. The library’s partnership with our supporting municipalities and local businesses is one event that you will not want to miss!

Package availability (as of 3/15/23):

• MLNV Title Sponsor: $10,000 (Limit 1)
• MLNV T-shirt Sponsor: $8,000 (Limit 1)
• MLNV Gold Sponsor, for Features Pavilion: $5,000 (Limit 1)
• MLNV Families in Need Sponsor: $3,500 (Limit 1)
• MLNV Silver Sponsor, for Food Court Pavilion: $2,500 (Limit 2)
• MLNV Craft Pavilion Sponsor: $2,500 (Limit 1)
• MLNV Goodie Bag Sponsor: $2,000 (Limit 1)
• MLNV Bronze Sponsor: $1,500 (Limit 3)
• MLNV Ticket Sponsor: $1,500 (Limit 1)
• MLNV Loyal Partner: $500
• MLNV Friend: $250

Click here for complete details about incentives for each sponsorship level.

For additional information or questions related to being a Touch-a-Truck Festival 2023 sponsor, please contact Holly Bennett at 610-759-4932 x.6  or email at [email protected].

Touch-a-Truck Festival is a fabulous, fun experience for the entire community!  It is also the library’s largest annual fundraiser and part of our PA Forward Civic and Social Literacy programming efforts.

Touch-a-Truck Festival is more than just trucks. Numerous types of vehicles will be on display as well as a variety of features such as a craft pavilion, food trucks, and much more. The Touch-a-Truck Festival has experienced tremendous success for more than a decade and is always changing to meet the diverse needs and interests of our entire community. Check back often to see new features as they are added!

All proceeds from this event are dedicated to supporting the mission of the library:  “To inspire and enrich the lives of the residents in our supporting municipalities by offering valuable lifetime literacies and a community centric service approach.”

You are invited to spend as long as you’d like exploring the trucks and activities on the recreation fields between 10:00am and 2:00pm.  We are hoping to have close to 100 vehicles and numerous other features and activities, including the addition of local food trucks.

Children will be able to see the vehicles, trucks, and equipment up close.  We encourage you allow your children to climb up into vehicles and talk to the drivers!

Yes, bathrooms are located in the snack stand towards the middle of the recreation fields.

Yes. There will be a handicapped parking area close to the event entrance and clearly marked.

Absolutely.  The event is held outdoors.

$5 for one ticket OR $20 for a family pack of five tickets.

Ticket purchase allows for entrance of one person to the event (children under the age of two are free).

Tickets may be purchased at the library beginning August 1st. Tickets may also be purchased at the gate the day of the event.

Tickets can be purchased with cash, a check, or a credit card.

The event is being held at 1114 Bushkill Center Road, Nazareth, PA 18064. Touch-a-Truck Festival was held at the same location in 2021 and 2022 but has been held at other locations in previous years.

Yes! We are working to secure the most sought-after food trucks in the Lehigh Valley to offer numerous options for food and drink purchases. Stay tuned for a list of confirmed trucks and links to their menus.

Yes.

Touch-a-Truck Festival invites attendees to explore on foot. Attendees are invited to walk as much as they would like to see all the trucks and activities. We are working to have a covered space and some seating for crafts and enjoying the various food and beverage options or to just sit and relax. Feel free to bring a lawn chair or blanket and spend the day!

Tickets are non-refundable. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend, please consider donating your tickets to our “Families in Need” initiative which will provide a limited number of complimentary tickets to attend free of charge. To donate your tickets, please contact Holly Bennett at [email protected].

Touch-a-Truck Festival is a great event regardless of age or gender!  Our volunteer coordinators work to include something for everyone.  Families, couples, teens, car and truck enthusiasts—all are welcome and will enjoy the day.

Thanks for your interest in the Touch-a-Truck Festival; for additional assistance, please call the Library at 610.759.4932.