The annual Fingerling Festival offers a fun - and free - family event, not to mention a whole lot of salmon, but they need volunteers to get the festivities running.
The Port Moody Ecological Society, which organizes the May 4 event, is calling for volunteers to work in groups of two or three to help with set up, assisting the exhibitors inside the rink, releasing the salmon and keeping the area clean.
Each year the Fingerling Festival draws thousands of kids and families to help release some 40,000 juvenile chum salmon into Noons Creek, the start of their four-year journey at sea.
While they're at the hatchery, families can check out the fish-rearing pond and restored wetland, while next door at the Port Moody skating rink a wide variety of displays give everyone a chance to learn more about environmental stewardship.
More than 80 organizations will be at the festival, including OWL, which helps injured birds of prey, Mike the Reptile Guy and the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
And the beloved children's entertainers Bobs and Lolo will be back this year, performing at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the arena.
The festival is the Ecological Society's biggest fundraiser of the year and includes raffles and a hot dog tent.
People are encouraged to carpool, use public transit or cycle to the event as parking is limited.
Anyone interested in volunteering can register online at www.noonscreek.org.
