Touch A Truck fundraiser is a big hit with local children
Some children in our area had a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with some very cool vehicles Saturday at SweetCreek Farm Market in Pike Road. It was the third annual “Touch a Truck” fundraiser. Police cars, fire engines, and other law enforcement vehicles were on site, and children and their parents were able to touch the trucks, go inside them, and even turn on the fire hoses. The Montgomery County Commission’s kidney walk team – whose nickname is “Kidney Lovers” – put on the fundraiser. They raise funds for kidney patients all over the state of Alabama, and especially those who live in the River Region. The money raised helps patients with financial burdens like transportation to dialysis appointments.
Loretta Burns is the Administrative Assistant for the Montgomery County Commission. “One reason we are doing this is that our chairman of the Montgomery County Commission Chairman Elton Dean was a dialysis patient that suffered from kidney disease, so that was kind of close to our hearts. So we developed a kidney walk team and that team raises funds for the Kidney Foundation and those funds help kidney patients all over the state of Alabama, and especially in Montgomery,” Burns says.
The kidney walk is Saturday, May 4, 2024 at Riverwalk Stadium downtown. You can go online to donate under the name “Kidney Lovers* at http://alabamakidneyfoundation.org
