Food Truck Festival, Touch A Truck On Tap In Falls Twp.

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — It's a big weekend in the township.

On Friday, the township's Food Truck Festival returns. Saturday is Touch a Truck.

The two events kick off at 6 p.m. Friday with a variety of food truck fare, live music, a beer garden, yard games, mini golf, and culminate with fireworks Friday night.

Guests can purchase a variety of food from area food trucks while listening to live music from
the band House Party. Adults aged 21 plus can purchase alcohol as part of a fundraiser for Fairless
Hills Fire Department.

The fun-filled weekend festivities will be held at Falls Township Community Park.

Touch a Truck will roar into the park Saturday at 9 a.m.

Featuring dozens of large trucks, excavators, towing vehicles, emergency response vehicles, and various types of heavy machinery, the township’s annual event kicks off with a sensory-friendly quiet hour until 10 a.m.

Truck operators will refrain from flashing their lights or blowing their air horns during this time.

Touch a Truck continues until 1 p.m. and includes balloon artistry, bounce houses, a photo
booth, as well as a scavenger hunt run by The Goofy Gators, one of this year’s nonprofit
benefactors.

Food and drink will be available to purchase from the concession stand. Kona Ice and Breakfast, Burgers and More will also be selling food and drink during Touch a Truck.

Spearheaded by Falls Township Supervisor Jeff Boraski, Touch a Truck offers a unique opportunity for children to learn about how various vehicles serve as first response, construction, electrical, farming, manufacturing, and more.

Since the fundraising event began in 2017, sponsors have contributed $144,220 which Falls Township donated to various charities.

In addition to The Goofy Gators, this year’s event benefits Pennsbury’s PTO organizations.

Boraski, who is finishing his last year as a Falls Township supervisor, said the event’s success has been beyond what he anticipated.

“We never really intended it to raise the funds we’ve raised,” he said, noting that the first year
netted about $1,000 for charity. “I’m proud that we did that. The things like this that are good
are the things that I’m going to miss.”

Inclusion has remained integral. Organizers have ensured sensory-friendly activities and a
variety of community-oriented festivities each year.

“There’s stuff for everybody,” Boraski said. “Even big kids like me.”

Touch a Truck will feature fire and emergency service vehicles, a school bus, and Falls Township
mowers and trucks. KPK Development Co. is the presenting sponsor.

Event sponsors who will be bringing trucks include: Waste Management, J.G. Crozier Contractors, Inc., IBEW Local 269, Speedway Towing and Repair, LLC, Shades of Green, Inc., Premium Excavating, LLC, Armour & Sons Electric, Inc., Grace Construction Management Co., Family Fuel Bucks County, Carr & Duff, Inc., Fred Beans Ford of Doylestown, Britton Industries, Inc., S.K.D. Tryon’s Emergency Vehicle Upfitting Center, Just Stumps, redbox + Dumpsters of Bucks County, Thor HVAC, and We Buy Any House Fast. Clarke Gallagher Barbiero Amuso & Glassman Law, Jones Engineering Associates, Remington & Vernick Engineers, Inc., Bayard Pump & Tank Co., Inc.

U.S. Municipal and ABA Centers of Pennsylvania are also sponsoring the event.

About the event

Falls Township’s Food Truck Festival will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday with fireworks concluding the event. The Food Truck Festival features live music, kids’ activities, food available for purchase, as well as a beer garden.

Touch a Truck will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Both events will be held at Falls Township Community Park, 9050 Mill Creek Road, Levittown.

In the event of inclement weather Friday, the fireworks will be rescheduled to Saturday at dusk. The other Friday activities do not have a rain date.

In the event of inclement weather on Saturday, Touch a Truck will be held on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

(Theresa Katalinas)