The Woburn Advocate - September 28, 2007

Truck event draws 3,000
The Woburn Advocate

Woburn - The biggest crowd in the event’s history, estimated well in excess of 3,000, packed Cummings Park last Sunday for the fourth annual Touch-a-Truck and Car Show. Visitors were treated to nearly 70 large trucks and other apparatus for kids of every age to touch and explore, while the classic car show attracted more than 100 vehicles.

Event chairman Ernie Agresti admitted that they were surprised by the increase in this year’s participation. “We were hoping to attract more people and vehicles, but we didn’t expect this sort of showing,” he said.

As in previous years, this free community event featured relevant public safety demonstrations by state and local government agencies. The Massachusetts State Police graphically illustrated the importance of using seat belts and child safety seats with its car rollover demonstration. Firefighters from the Woburn Fire Department exhibited their “Jaws-of-Life” and brought their “smoke house” to help teach children how to exit a building in the event of fire. Of equal interest was the mobile State Police Crime lab and Middlesex County Sheriff Department’s Mobile Command Center.

A Volvo Euclid, an off-road articulating dump truck, provided by Woburn firm C.N. Wood, was one of the largest vehicles on display. Several very tall vehicles, including a crane from Woburn firm SGR Crane, a concrete pump truck from Wakefield firm, Independent Concrete and a boom truck from Waltham firm, Waltham Lime, decorated the skyline.

The Car Show had the most noteworthy increase in vehicles on display and included a 1956 Rolls Royce provided by Woburn firm American Classic Limousines, a 1942 Dodge WC54 military ambulance provided by Woburn resident Glen Wiegland and a 1911 antique fire truck, provided by the Lexington Historical Society. Unique to this year’s car show was the car restoration demonstration by Chop-Shop Customs of Woburn.

Other new attractions this year included, aused electronics and appliances drop-off, courtesy of Windfield Alloy, a jumping, tumbling and dancing open house at The Little Gym and interactive, hands-on science experiments by High Touch High Tech.

Cummings Properties has been building and leasing commercial office space in Woburn since 1970. The firm is also the original sponsor of Cummings Foundation, and New Horizons Retirement Community at the former Choate Memorial Hospital in Woburn.