LIVERMORE FALLS – Apple-Pumpkin Festival organizers are boasting the biggest festival so far will occur Saturday, Sept. 30.
The festival will spread from Union Park, the gazebo and onto the recreation field with something for everybody, committee member, Cathy Butterfield said Friday.
Events begin at 10 a.m. and many end by 3 p.m. with some going later.
At last count there were about 60 vendors and attractions, she said.
There will be music, crafts, vendors, free hayrides, balloon art, a hub cap hurl, free gunlocks, cookie decorating, a cider press, police dog demonstration, pumpkin painting, black smithing, games, baked goods, operating under the influence course and more.
There will also be history displays, the Hurdy Gurdy Man, and First Light, a Christian radio station, will have its race car there.
A bike rodeo and helmet decorating is also slated as well as a three-legged race, a wheelbarrow race, puppet show, bee observatory, 4-H barbecue, wool spinning, leaf pressing, genealogies, sand art, organic and natural foods and the Hall of Shame.
Other highlights include a tiger slide and bounce house that cost $5 per child or $10 each family to slide or bounce as long as they want.
Clark Souther and Holly McCormick will take turns operating a hayride shuttle from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Butterfield said.
Five bands will perform during the day between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.:
10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Bing and Nancy Crosby
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Barry Wood
1 to 2 p.m., Sammi Angel
2:30 to 3 p.m., Melodears
3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Joel and Janna Gilbert
“We had excellent community support with donations of cash and otherwise,” Butterfield said. “We’re full. The whole gazebo area, recreation field and Union Park.”
The festival is a Jay-Livermore-Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce event.
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