The first annual Apple Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Fairbanks School on Route 4 in Farmington.

On the same day, the Apple Pumpkin Festival will take place at the Waterfront Park and gazebo area in Livermore Falls. Festivities there will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a kids’ half-mile fun run, followed by an adult 5K road race.

Both festivals will offer crafts and food.

The Livermore Falls festival will raise money for the Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce.

The Fairbanks School Neighborhood Association will be collecting funds for continued construction on the Fairbanks School, which was destroyed in a 1998 fire.

There will be no admission charge for either event.

The entertainment lineup at the Apple Pumpkin Festival includes Sandy Arthur’s School of Dance at 11 a.m. From 1 to 4 p.m., entertainment will be provided by Barry Woods, Bing and Nancy Crosby, Fiddling Tim Farrell, the Smith Brothers, the duo Everad Dodge and Roseanna, Shawna Edwards, Bob Thibodeau, Craig Hutchinson, Ray Paul, Sandy Waite, Dick Pelletier and Ron Roy.

Demonstrations at the neighborhood association’s Apple Festival include: rug braiding with Suzanne Bejay at 10:30 a.m.; basket weaving with Nancy Taylor at 11:30 a.m.; utensil whittling with Andy Pratt and John Hagerstrom at 12:30 p.m.; and German paper cutting with the Barker family at 1:30 p.m.