Touch-a-truck at Wiscasset Speedway gets families, sun
Henry Tarrance, 2, of Wiscasset explores a Maine Army National Guard Humvee as sister Madison, 11, looks on Sunday during a touch-a-truck event at Wiscasset Speedway. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Raegan Eddy, 7, and Eva Whitmore, 9, both of Wiscasset man a snack table. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Evan Pufundi, 2, of Topsham behind the wheel of a Wiscasset school bus. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Kaitlin Lincoln, 10, of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Staff Sgt. Allen Tarrance of Wiscasset and Specialist Cameron Santiago of Woolwich display a Humvee from the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd engineer battalion. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Feed Our Scholars volunteer Nat Bryant, left, talks with Dana Mosher as Mosher mans a Darling’s Ice Cream truck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician Kristin Draper of Wiscasset Ambulance Service and WIscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine take part in the Sept. 16 touch-a-truck event at Wiscasset Speedway. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Trucker Frank Loupe of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Liam Hilton, 2, of Dresden checks out a 1960 International VF 195, former Air Force truck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Feed Our Scholars volunteer Joni Leigh, right, helps at the fundraiser. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Newcastle’s Steve Ward, left, crew chief of the number 24 Super Street car his father Mark Ward of Wiscasset owns. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Andrea Loupe of Wiscasset outside husband Frank Loupe’s truck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Henry Tarrance, 2, of Wiscasset explores a Maine Army National Guard Humvee as sister Madison, 11, looks on Sunday during a touch-a-truck event at Wiscasset Speedway. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Raegan Eddy, 7, and Eva Whitmore, 9, both of Wiscasset man a snack table. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Evan Pufundi, 2, of Topsham behind the wheel of a Wiscasset school bus. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Kaitlin Lincoln, 10, of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Staff Sgt. Allen Tarrance of Wiscasset and Specialist Cameron Santiago of Woolwich display a Humvee from the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd engineer battalion. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Feed Our Scholars volunteer Nat Bryant, left, talks with Dana Mosher as Mosher mans a Darling’s Ice Cream truck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician Kristin Draper of Wiscasset Ambulance Service and WIscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine take part in the Sept. 16 touch-a-truck event at Wiscasset Speedway. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Trucker Frank Loupe of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Liam Hilton, 2, of Dresden checks out a 1960 International VF 195, former Air Force truck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Feed Our Scholars volunteer Joni Leigh, right, helps at the fundraiser. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Newcastle’s Steve Ward, left, crew chief of the number 24 Super Street car his father Mark Ward of Wiscasset owns. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Andrea Loupe of Wiscasset outside husband Frank Loupe’s truck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Back on the pavement of the Wiscasset Speedway track after stepping out of a 1948 REO model 31 road tractor, Wiscasset’s Jameson Lincoln, 8, said he liked it best so far at Sunday’s touch-a-truck event.
“It feels good to sit in and it’s red, and red’s my favorite color,” he said with sister Kaitlin Lincoln, 10, and their mother Kimberly Lincoln nearby. The REO’s owner Clayton Hoak said the model was the largest REO built from 1948 to 1951.
Next to it on the track, Hoak displayed a yellow 1960 International VF 195, former Air Force truck. He said it used to haul a jet fuel tank at a base in Idaho. Spending a moment in its driver’s seat was Liam Hilton, 2, of Dresden, attending with his grandmother, past Wiscasset town clerk Chris Wolfe of Dresden. She’s still in the Freeport town clerk’s job she left Wiscasset for.
Event-goers also checked out a Wiscasset school bus, ambulance and police cruiser, commercial trucks, race cars and, from the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd engineer battalion based in Brunswick, an armored Humvee. Staff Sgt. Allen Tarrance of Wiscasset and Specialist Cameron Santiago of Woolwich stood by it and had goodies ready to give out in a case inside the Humvee. Tarrance’s son Henry, 2, smiled as he looked over the case while in the Humvee with sister Madison, 11.
The sun was beating hot on the speedway after the region’s stretch of more fall-like weather. Eva Whitmore, 9, and Raegan Eddy, 7, both of Wiscasset, enjoyed Popsicles from a Darling’s Ice Cream truck as the two manned a Parents in Education snack table. “I think it’s fabulous that the speedway was willing to offer their space and time,” Eva’s mother Kristen Whitmore said. The event was a fundraiser for PIE and Feed Our Scholars. Feed Our Scholars volunteers, in green tee shirts, greeted event-goers at the admissions table.
Trucker Frank Loupe of Wiscasset brought his truck. Asked why he wanted to take part, he smiled and said: “It’s for a great cause, why not give a little time?”
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