Touch a Truck Set for July 17
June 17, 2025
The academic year may have just ended, but HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital is already thinking ahead to fall by scheduling its annual, popular Touch a Truck Back-to-School Supply Drive for July 17 in front of the hospital.
“We look forward to this event every year, since it combines our mission and fun,” said Abigail Salzeider, MSNED, RN, Nurse Manager of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the children’s hospital. “Community residents can donate school supplies for local students while giving youngsters an up-close look at emergency vehicles.”
The event also offers special moments of joy to the hospital’s pediatric patients, since they have their own private time to see the emergency vehicles and be visited by local police officers and firefighters.
New school supplies for the drive can be donated at the locations below through July 14 or at the event. Members of the public are welcome to bring donations and see emergency vehicles up close from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 17.
Needed school supplies may be viewed at the event’s Amazon Wish List.
Drop off donations during business hours at:
HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital lobby
800 E. Carpenter St., Springfield
SIU Women and Children’s Clinic
400 N. 9th St., Springfield
America Ambulance
755 Apple Orchard Rd., Springfield
Contributions may be mailed to:
HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital
ATTN: Touch a Truck, Abigail Salzeider
800 E. Carpenter St., Springfield, IL 62769
“We look forward to this event every year, since it combines our mission and fun,” said Abigail Salzeider, MSNED, RN, Nurse Manager of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the children’s hospital. “Community residents can donate school supplies for local students while giving youngsters an up-close look at emergency vehicles.”
The event also offers special moments of joy to the hospital’s pediatric patients, since they have their own private time to see the emergency vehicles and be visited by local police officers and firefighters.
New school supplies for the drive can be donated at the locations below through July 14 or at the event. Members of the public are welcome to bring donations and see emergency vehicles up close from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 17.
Needed school supplies may be viewed at the event’s Amazon Wish List.
Drop off donations during business hours at:
HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital lobby
800 E. Carpenter St., Springfield
SIU Women and Children’s Clinic
400 N. 9th St., Springfield
America Ambulance
755 Apple Orchard Rd., Springfield
Contributions may be mailed to:
HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital
ATTN: Touch a Truck, Abigail Salzeider
800 E. Carpenter St., Springfield, IL 62769
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