LIVERMORE FALLS – The Apple-Pumpkin Festival will go on Saturday no matter the weather, spokesman Phil Poirier said Wednesday.

“In the last few years the Apple Pumpkin Festival has grown into the ‘event of the year’ in the Jay, Livermore, Livermore Falls area,” Poirier said. “We think this year’s festival will be bigger and better than ever.”

The festival continues to grow each year and organizers are hoping to top the 3,000 to 4,000 people who turned out last year.

Most of the events will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Livermore Falls Recreation Field on Foundry Road, located behind the municipal building. Foundry Road will be one-way during the festival from Main to Park Street or Route 133.

On tap is live music provided by several musicians, children’s activities, lots of food, an array of crafters and vendors, pie baking contest and more opportunities for fun.

Among the highlights are an eel race at 10:30 a.m. and noon; a coin-hunting contest in shavings for children ages 6 to 12, at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; sack races for ages 3 to 5 at 9:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.; and a lollipop contest for ages 3 to 12 from 9 a.m. until supplies last, Poirier said.

There will be a beehive display, stock cars, antique tractors as well as other displays. There is also opportunities to have photos taken with special characters, do pumpkin painting, finger printing, child identification program and an operating under the influence golf cart program.

A triathlon adventure race will begin at 8:30 a.m., with registration at 7:30 a.m. at the bottom of Spruce Mountain in Jay.

The adventure course consists of kayaking on the Androscoggin River, about a three-mile off-road bike ride and about a four-mile trail run.

The fees for the race are $35 per person or $35 per relay team. T-shirts will go to the first 50 participants.

Also going on as part of the day are a book sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Treat Memorial Library on Main Street; a pancake breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. at the American Legion on Reynolds Avenue; and an open house and remote radio broadcast at Pine Tree Orthopedics on Park Street.