Call for Volunteers and Local Businesses…
Join the 6th Annual Hilltown Spring Festival
May 12th in Cummington!

Deadline to sign up to participate with the 6th Annual Hilltown Spring Festival: April 29th!

The Hilltown Community Development Corporation is signing up local artisans, businesses, non-profit organizations and volunteers for the 6th annual Hilltown Spring Festival, to be held Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Cummington Fairgrounds.  This year’s Festival, which is expected to draw 2,000 visitors, will feature performances and workshops by professional musicians and student musicians, specialty food and drink from hilltown vendors, displays by businesses, artists and craftspeople, children’s activities all day long, and an all-ages contra-dance beginning at 5 PM.

Join us at the Hilltown Spring Festival if you are:

• A vendor of products and services that make our lives more energy-efficient and our communities more sustainable;
• An artist or craftsperson who wants to display and sell your work;
• A business or non-profit that wants to reach 2,000 prospective customers in one day;
• A local food vendor;
• A business who wants to sponsor the Festival or donate a raffle prize; or
• Interested in community service!

Registration forms are at www.hilltowncdc.org, or email sethi@hilltowncdc.org or call 413-296-4536 ext. 112.  The deadline for reserving a space is April 29, 2011.

ABOUT THE HILLTOWN CDC

The Hilltown CDC is a 30-year-old community development agency serving the Hilltown region. The Hilltown Spring Festival is supported in part by grants from the Local Cultural Councils of the towns of Ashfield, Charlemont-Hawley, Chester, Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Plainfield, Washington, Westhampton, Williamsburg, Windsor and Worthington, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Major sponsors of the 2012 Hilltown Spring Festival are Hilltown Families, the Westfield River Wild & Scenic Committee and Cooley Dickinson Hospital.  Other major sponsors are Alternative Recycling Systems, DataEdge Marketing Information, Easthampton Savings Bank, Florence Savings Bank, Hilltown Tree & Garden, George Propane, and Teagno Construction.

Also sponsoring the Hilltown Spring Festival are: Ashfield Hardware & Supply; Caleb Harris, CPA; Cummington Supply; Hilltown Tents; Hull Forestlands; Newman Environmental Engineering; O’Connell Oil; Schneider Plumbing & Heating; Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program; and Wright Builders.