20170826 - LCJ Truck Touching (hrb)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Alex Plese, 4, of Lake Villa looks at the controls of a Lake Villa Fire District's ladder truck during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road. Alex was at the event with his father, Ed, and brother, Eddie, 7.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Alex Plese, 4, of Lake Villa looks at the controls of a Lake Villa Fire District's ladder truck during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road. Alex was at the event with his father, Ed, and brother, Eddie, 7.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Shawn White, a Lindenhurst police officer, talks with Lindsay Rumowski, 5, of Lindenhurst as she sits in a patrol squad car during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Ryan McCann, 4, of Lindenhurst tries on a firefighter's helmet as he stands next to Jaleeyana Curtis, 5, of Antioch during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Eli Sonnefeldt, 4, of Spring Grove sits next to his cousin, Aubrey Myers, 7, of Ingleside as he honks the horn in a Groot garbarge truck during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Brad Prigge, of Volo shows his son, Bradley, 2, what he looks like after he tries on a Lake Villa Fire Protection District firefighter's gear as his son hands him a lollipop during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Veronica Dougherty, 5, of Lake Villa and her sister, Faith, 2, sit in a RTV utility vehicle during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Alexis McAteer, 3, of Lindenhurst sits on a Lake Villa Fire District ladder truck during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Aiden Gonzalez, 8, of Waukegan and his brother, Alex, 6, wait their turn to look inside a Lake Villa Fire District's ladder truck during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Anastasia Bennett, 5, of Lake Villa eats a Sno-Kone with help from her mother, Becky, during Touch-a-Truck at the Lindenhurst Park District Lippert Community Center parking lot on Grass Lake Road. The free Sno-Kones were provided by First American Bank.