Moses Lake Touch a Truck to return April 25
JOEL MARTIN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 month, 1 week AGO
The fifth annual Moses Lake MomCo Touch a Truck will be April 25, with fire trucks, police cars, excavation equipment and a maybe special surprise vehicle.
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A child gets acquainted with a bit of machinery at last year’s Touch a Truck.
A child rides high on an excavator at last year’s Touch a Truck in Moses Lake. This year’s event is April 25.
Besides lots of vehicles to climb on. Touch a Truck will include activities and information for all ages.
Joel Martin has been with the Columbia Basin Herald for more than 25 years in a variety of roles and is the most-tenured employee in the building. Martin is a married father of eight and enjoys spending time with his children and his wife, Christina. He is passionate about the paper’s mission of informing the people of the Columbia Basin because he knows it is important to record the history of the communities the publication serves. | March 24, 2026 3:00 AM
MOSES LAKE — The MomCo Touch a Truck event will be April 25, and there may be something new, according to organizer Brittney Ketterer.
“We have a surprise vehicle this year,” Ketterer said. “I can’t say what; it’s a surprise.”
It will be something they’ve never had before; however, she said. She preferred not to divulge what it was in case the owner had to cancel, she added.
This is the fifth year for the event, which brings police cars, fire trucks, construction equipment and monster trucks to the lot behind the Moses Lake Presbyterian Church for children to look at, climb on and learn about. Besides the vehicles, there will be a dig pit, a mound of gravel with little excavators that children can ride on to do their dirt-based construction projects.
There are five food vendors this year, Ketterer said: El Charro, Blacky’s, Favored Farmhouse, Tami’s Hawaiian Grind and Sweet Snack Attack. There are also six activity booths booked so far, including face painting.
Last year, about 1,300 people, children and adults, came to Touch a Truck.
“That’s fewer than the previous year due to the heat,” she said. “Right when it started getting hot, people stopped coming.”
Temperatures soared into the 80s that day, according to the National Weather Service, unusual for a date that generally averages in the 60s.
Admission for Touch a Truck is $5, with children under a year old free. The event is a fundraiser for the Moses Lake chapter of MomCo, a faith-based organization that meets twice a month at Moses Lake Presbyterian Church to support mothers of all ages. MomCo chapters also meet at Bethlehem Chapel in Ephrata and Quincy Free Methodist Church, according to the national organization’s website.
“We are always welcoming more mothers to come and join us,” Ketterer said. “We offer child care as long as you’re in one of our meetings.”
Ketterer herself has two sons who have been coming to Touch a truck since its first appearance in Moses Lake.
“My youngest has been coming to Touch a Truck since he was 2,” she said. “It’s just a great little community where you can meet moms in all walks of life.”
More information about Moses Lake MomCo can be found at their Facebook page: https://bit.ly/MLMomCoFB. For more information or to find a local chapter, visit www.themom.co.
Touch a Truck
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Moses Lake Presbyterian Church
1142 W. Ivy Ave.
https://bit.ly/MLMomCoFB
A child gets acquainted with a bit of machinery at last year’s Touch a Truck.
A child rides high on an excavator at last year’s Touch a Truck in Moses Lake. This year’s event is April 25.
Besides lots of vehicles to climb on. Touch a Truck will include activities and information for all ages.ARTICLES BY JOEL MARTIN
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