The South Ward Playground in Tamaqua was brimming with action Sunday.

Hundreds of kids and their families turned out for a block party featuring festival games, food and a Touch-A-Truck with all kinds of equipment lining the streets.

And in the evening, the playground hosted its third annual Beatdown in the Playground with body slams and head butts courtesy of Wow That’s Wrestling.

The all-day event raised funds for the playground at Penn and Oak streets, which houses playground equipment, a concession stand, basketball court and more. It also serves free lunches to area school students during the summer, and will again host Schuylkill Community Action’s Summer BLAST! Program.

As for the wrestling, participants came from near and far, said WTW co-owner and Tamaqua native Tyler Culkins, who wrestles as Tyler Devin Thrasher.

“We have some local, and some traveled from New Jersey and New York,” Culkins explained.

The wrestlers volunteered their time, with some participating in a dunk tank and others, like “Bad Boy” Anthony Colosi, of Tamaqua, getting whipped cream “pies” tossed at them by children like Aubrey Watts, 4.

Admission to the playground — and the wrestling event — was free.

The Touch-A-Truck is new this year, said Tom Schlorf, vice president of the South Ward Playground Association.

It started with an offer from Casella Waste Systems, which offered to bring a dump truck.

Schlorf accepted and began asking others to display equipment for children to see. Joining the Casella truck that was rolled in by Mike Dannenfelser, a Casella division manager, were apparatus from the South Ward, Citizens and American Hose fire companies in Tamaqua as well as the Coaldale Fire Department. Tamaqua borough brought a dump truck and loader; Tyler Hope arrived with a mini excavator; Hope’s Towing had a rollback, and Mike Warner had a tractor.

“We enjoy helping the community,” Dannenfelser said of Casella, which recently purchased Tamaqua Transfer and Recycling.

A volunteer crew from the business even helped spread large piles of mulch at the playground earlier this year.