Volunteers for all events and activities related to this year’s Pumpkinfest & Regatta are invited to join the committee at its first monthly meeting on Thursday, March 23 at 4:30 p.m. at Skidompha Public Library’s Porter Meeting Hall. The library is located at 184 Main Street, across from the post office in Damariscotta.

All attendees should come equipped with their calendars, as the team will be scheduling the festival’s many events, as well as the entire year’s meeting dates.The Pumpkinfest team needs individuals to fill three VIP volunteer positions plus two assistants. Open spots including someone to chair the Pumpkin Derby event; someone to chair the Slingshot and Catapult event; someone to chair the Pumpkin Pie Eating contest; and two people to assist Bill Clark in venue-prep for Seedling Sunday, and to help him organize the pumpkin deployment operation.

If you or someone you know might want to volunteer, please have them attend the meeting, or contact Kathy Anderson, the Pumpkinfest’s volunteer administrator at: info@damariscottapumpkinfest.com.

The annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta™  is a uniquely spirited event that provides education to young and old, and also an economic boost to this rural, coastal community. Its intent is to expand annually, as has been done since the first two “pumpkinboats” raced one another in 2007. There’s no limit to where imagination can take this “Only in Maine!” festival. For more information on the festival, visit www.mainepumpkinfest.com.