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Date: 9/14/2023
PALMER — The Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce’s Holiday Harvest Festival will take place on Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School on 240 Sykes St. in Palmer.
There will be entertainment, food, games, raffles and over 80 vendors. Entertainment will include an animal show by Out of the Ark, the Dan Kane Singers and performances by local dance studios Gotta Dance and Colby Academy of Dance.
“This is our biggest festival that we run,” said event coordinator Carol Seaver. “It started the same time as the Food Truck, Farmers & Artisans Market to get people out & about and reconnect during COVID.”
Memas Creations, Hennessey’s Hardwicks, B&H Craft Jewelers, Backyard Rustic Pallet Designs and HeBee Pottery are just some of the craft vendors participating. Food vendors include Tony Happy Valley Pizza, Cousins Maine Lobster, and Fry’d Guys. Nonprofits such as Light up Palmer, Palmer Domestic Violence Task Force, Palmer Food Share, Top Floor Learning and Amvets Post 74 will be attending as well as youth groups Pathfinder Booster Club, Palmer Cowboys Football and Palmer Youth Basketball.
The Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce is one of the oldest chambers in the area and currently has 44 members. Organized in 1917, a group of local investors bought local stock in 1939. As more businesses turned to the Chamber for support, they decided to incorporate and become official in 1940. The chamber was established to recognize the authority to deal with matters of interest to businesses of the general public and follow prosperity to the community to promote the general welfare of the Village of Three Rivers. Seaver told Reminder Publishing they have a committee and have meetings to discuss goals they would like to establish for the next year. The meeting is called Lessons Learned where the committee discuss the lessons they learned from the year before, what they can improve on, consistently asking the vendors and the public what they want to see.
“This year, we’re trying to get more community involvement,” Seaver said. “No matter what we tried before it wasn’t working so that’s why the switch of the venue which is a lot more work for us this year, but we are hoping that we get the community involvement and we’re hoping the people come out, support it and enjoy being together as a community.”
Contact Seaver with questions at naturalcair@gmail.com.