Bigger Seafest planned; volunteers sought for 2008 festival

The idea is to bring together Seafest, the Yarmouth and Acadian Shores Lobster Festival and the Yarmouth Waterfront Festival and Parade of Lights.

The plan is to hold the amalgamated event under the name Yarmouth Seafest.

The festival is to be held this year over a week-and-a-half-long period starting in around mid-July.

Organizers are interested in hearing from people who would like to be a part of Seafest and a public meeting to discuss it is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m. at Rudder’s restaurant (upstairs).

“We want volunteers and people who would like to get involved,” said Seafest president Dave Warner.

Officials want to inject some new excitement in Seafest, he said, and they hope bringing in the other events and making it a larger festival will help accomplish this.

“We’re all going to get together and do a bigger one,” Warner said.

People who might want more information about next week’s public session at Rudder’s can contact Heather McClelland (phone 742-2082 or email hmcclelland@swsda.com).

Seafest is one of the region’s longest-running annual summertime events, the festival having been introduced in the late 1970s.

Three decades after its launch, the basic theme or focus of Seafest —as its name, of course, suggests – remains the sea.

Referring to the efforts that have been initiated in preparation for this year’s Seafest, notably the plan to combine it with the other events, Warner said, “We’ve been doing some adjusting of the marketing plans and adjusting of the schedule to make sure we can make it more exciting.”