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#TouchATruck #LBTouchATruck
About 12,000 kids and adults climbed aboard more than 100 vehicles on Sun., May 1 at the 2nd annual Long Beach Touch-A-Truck event hosted by Councilwoman Suzie Price and Justin Rudd's nonprofit Community Action Team (CAT) in the Granada Avenue beachfront parking lot in Belmont Shore.
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| Click to watch the video of what last Sunday looked like. Lots of smiles! |
We believe it's the largest Touch-A-Truck event in the country. There were off-road race cars and trucks, construction rigs, fire engines, refuse and recycling trucks, a street sweeper, moving trucks, tractors, a dune buggy, delivery trucks, classic cars and trucks, cherry pickers and scissor lifts, RVs, the Aquarium's touch tank, motorcycles and ATVs, golf carts, a limo, military vehicles, police vehicles, a boat, an RV, buses, Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine and Tow Mater -- and, of course, food trucks!
YOUR MEMORIES: Share an event photo, video and album of your kid from on our Long Beach Touch-A-Truck Facebook page. And, see more fan photos here: www.facebook.com/LongBeachTouchATruck
Not too late to get a shirt. Shirt w/ shipping: $15. Or, pick up for $10. Kids and adult sizes.
WE SHIP SHIRTS: If you did not get a shirt at the event, Paypal $15/shirt, and include shirt color and size to [email protected]. Or, pick up in Belmont Shore from Justin for $10/shirt.
This official
Long Beach Touch-A-Truck shirt is just $10/cash donation to the nonprofit
Community Action Team (CAT), only while supplies last. Youth sizes S, M, L and Adult sizes S, M, L, XL. 100% cotton shirts in three color choices: royal blue, daisy yellow, and cherry red.
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Please support Justin's annual summer trip to Kenya to help/support AIDS orphans with
Tumaini International. Goal is $5,000.
* We'll purchase $100 food packs (i.e. corn, peas, flour, sugar, tea, corn meal, cooking oil, washing soap; will feed a family of five for a month!) and school uniforms that I'll take along on home visits each day.
* We'll purchase dairy cows ($310 each), goats ($65 each), and chickens ($30/four) at the local farmers market to give to the caretakers of the AIDS orphans we visit.
* And, our team has committed to fund $2,000 to build a new two-room home for a grandmother named Lois and her young grandson named Victor. We'll send money in advance so most of the house can be built by local workers, and we will spend some time finishing the metal roof and other finishes in July.
* And, we'll be taking about 60 orphans on a day safari near Nairobi. Most of these kids have not traveled outside their small rural towns.
We'll fund and finish building a brand-new home (to replace this current one) for this grandmother and her grandson (photo below). The boy's parents died because of AIDS.
Donate now:
https://grouprev.com/Kenya2016JustinRudd
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED (teens and adults) for Rudd events/contests
RSVP to [email protected] if you can help. Include which projects/events below you can help with.
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Some of the Rudd/C.A.T. upcoming events and projects
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30-Minute Beach Cleanup
Saturday, May 21, 2016, 10 a.m.,
204th consecutive month, 1 Granada Ave. Justin Rudd and his Community Action Team have been hosting the monthly cleanup since June 1999. Approx. 100 volunteers of all ages attend to help rid the sand of debris, so our beach remains clean and safe.
BeachCleanup.org
* Clothing & Shoes Drive for Homeless
June 1-7, 2016. Bay Shore Church concert hall, 5100 E. The Toledo. 3rd annual. For Justin Rudd's birthday (June 6), he asks the public to give the gift of used clothes and shoes. Last year, several truckloads of goods were collected and donated to area homeless service agencies.
JustinRudd.com
* 30-Minute Beach Cleanup
Saturday, June 18, 2016, 10 a.m., 205th consecutive month, 1 Granada Ave. Justin Rudd and his Community Action Team have been hosting the monthly cleanup since June 1999. Approx. 100 volunteers of all ages attend to help rid the sand of debris, so our beach remains clean and safe.
BeachCleanup.org
* $1,000 Southern California National Anthem Sing-Off
Saturday, June 18, 2016, 10:30 a.m., 5th annual, 1 Granada Ave. on the beach's boat launch ramp. Justin Rudd and his Community Action Team invite singers of all ages to sing a cappella the last part of the National Anthem for the crowd following the day's beach cleanup. Then finalists will sing the entire song for the crowd. The winner goes home with a $1,000 contract to sing the Anthem at their choice of 10 Community Action Team events within a year.
JustinRudd.com/singoff
* Camp Justin!
June 19-25, 2016; 6th annual. For a week each summer, Justin Rudd takes about a dozen deserving incoming high school seniors on day trips around Southern California and beyond. In previous years, the group: flew to Las Vegas for an overnight and stayed in a 5-star hotel; flew to San Francisco; toured college campuses; rode horses in Griffith Park; toured movie studios; dined with county commissioners, mayors and councilpeople, spent the night on the Queen Mary, and much more. The goal of the Camp is to help the students to "explore, dream and discover" while showing them more of the world outside the neighborhood or school in which they spend most of their time.
JustinRudd.com/campjustin NOTE: NO VOLUNTEERS NEEDED.
* Great American 4th of July Kids Bike Parade
Mon., July 4, 2016, 10 a.m., 13th annual, 1 Granada Ave., Justin Rudd and his Community Action Team host more than 500 kids on their patriotic-decorated bicycles, plus their parents, for a 2-mile ride along the beach bike path and the closed-to-auto-traffic-for-the-summer Bay Shore Ave. The day also includes a patriotic speech contest, and patriotic costume contest. Free.
BikeParade.com
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