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Reid Schrad, of Lake City, had so much fun at Touch a Truck event at the Central School museum in Lake City that he wasn’t ready to go home when the event ended at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. “He didn’t want to leave,” said his mother, Jackie Schrad.

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Ryker McChesney, 3, and Ashlyn McChesney, 4, children of Josh and Presley McChesney, of Lohrville, enjoyed sitting in the driver’s seat of one of the Lake City Fire Department’s trucks at the Touch a Truck event at the Central School Museum in Lake City on Tuesday afternoon.

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“She was looking forward to this all afternoon,” said Judy Iverson, speaking of her granddaughter Cassidy Snyder, 4, of Mt. Carmel, who loved the road grader at the Touch a Truck event at the Central School museum in Lake City on Tuesday afternoon.

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Board members and volunteers with Central School Preservation in Lake City enjoy finding innovative ways to connect younger generations with Central School, the local museum that’s housed in a former elementary school built in 1884. A new event for 2021 was Touch a Truck, where people of all ages could get a close-up look at heavy equipment from the city of Lake City, fire trucks from the Lake City Fire Department, cars from Smith Racing of Lake City, a John Deere tractor, the Iowa Corn car, the Lake City Police Department’s truck, a Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department car, and an Iowa State Patrol car. The event attracted more than 100 people on Tuesday afternoon.

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Sgt. Neil Morenz, with the Iowa State Patrol, handed out stickers to children who attended the Touch a Truck event at the Central School museum on Tuesday in Lake City. The event allowed people of all ages to get a close-up look at interesting vehicles from the local area.

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Presley Blair, of rural Lake City, loved the chance to sit in a skid loader at the Touch a Truck event at Central School museum on Tuesday in Lake City.