(Top) Ed Prickett took a snowplow with a wing (Bottom) Dwight Moffat took the Elgin sweeper. (Center) Ed Prickett and Dwight Moffat

ITD visits Middleton Library Literacy Program

A pair of ITD District 3 employees from the Caldwell Maintenance shop visited the Middleton Public Library to take part in the children's summer reading program. Well, not really participate ­ more like bring down the house.

Ed Prickett took a snowplow with a mounted wing, and Dwight Moffat took the Elgin street sweeper on July 30 for the finale of the children's summer reading program. Kimberly Drake, the first-year coordinator of the summer program, said there were approximately 70 kids crawling on the machinery and peppering Prickett and Moffat with questions, some actually related to the topic.

"Honking the horn was the biggest attraction of the afternoon," explained Drake. "Along with rapidly ingesting hot dogs, inhaling popcorn and gulping pop."

Drake said there were more than 500 participants in the summer reading program, which ran from June 4-July 30. She said that based on the popularity of this year's finale, she expects a similar "Big Trucks" themed event next year.

 

Published 9-5-14