RANGELEY – Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum will hold its 12th annual Apple Festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Main Street. A beef stew luncheon will begin at 11 a.m. Klara Haines and other volunteers will also serve hot dogs, sandwiches and apple desserts.

Inside the church, all kinds of homemade baked goods made with apples and more will be for sale, including pies, breads, jellies, muffins and cookies. Crafts from throughout the region as well as a white elephant table will fill the church undercroft. Frank and Audrey Stevens of Strong will bring their wood crafts, knit goods and homemade doughnuts and breads.

Margaret Yezil of Oquossoc will offer her creations, such as placemats, toy moose and Christmas items. Scotty’s Ceramics will also offer wares. Other crafters have promised to bring apple-inspired cookie cutters and potholders. New this year will be crafts made from the wool of llamas raised in Maine.

The museum will offer its publications, “Logging in Maine Woods: The Paintings of Alden Grant” and “Working the Woods,” as well as T-shirts and sweatshirts.

Chances on the museum’s July 2006 raffle items, including a handmade chain saw carving by Rodney Richard Sr., will be for sale.

Many other crafters will be inside and outside the church.

Also on the church lawn, museum volunteers will demonstrate apple pressing and cider-making. Visitors are welcome to bring their own apples to be pressed and Harnden’s Harvest Hutch of East Wilton will offer apples and cider for sale.

Rodney Richard Sr., of Rangeley, and Rodney Richard Jr., of Pownal, will rev up their chain saws to entertain guests as the father-and-son team bring a host of Maine animals out of blocks of white pine.

Admission to the Oct. 1 Apple Festival is free.

For more information, call Rodney and Lucille Richard at 864-5595.