HOLLIS – The Hollis Woman’s Club and Hollis Town Band will join forces this month to bring the community the 62nd annual Strawberry Festival.

The festival will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, June 24, and will feature a performance by the town band, along with various activities for adults and children.

According to Noreen Polus, co-chair of the event with Lori Dwyer, about 10 vendors will be at the festival selling various crafts, jewelry and artwork. Children can enjoy games and face-painting, among other activities.

The focus of the event, however, Polus said, is the strawberries. Visitors can purchase strawberry sundaes or strawberry shortcakes to enjoy during the festival, all of which are made with local products.

Lull Farm and Brookdale Fruit Farm will provide the strawberries, she said, and Doc Davis, of Pepperell, Mass., will provide ice cream.

Polus said she has only lived in town for about a year and a half, and joined the Woman’s Club as a way to get know the community. The Strawberry Festival, she said, celebrates everything she has grown to love about the town.

“As you drive through town you can see the apple orchards and the fields,” she said. “Hollis is truly an agricultural center. And what’s amazing is that it’s right at the border of Nashua.”

The festival draws a lot of community members to enjoy local products and music. This year, in addition to Woman’s Club and band members, students from Hollis-Brookline High School, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts groups will also be volunteering at the event.

Polus said organizers are expecting to draw about 2,000 people this year, with many of the guests being out-of-town visitors.

“The festival is pretty famous,” she said.

While the event is free to the public, desserts will cost $6.50, and Polus said the event is the Woman’s Club’s biggest fundraiser.

After covering expenses of holding the festival, all proceeds go toward a number of scholarships given out by the organization,

Two scholarships are given to Hollis-Brookline High School graduates each year, while a third is reserved for a local adult woman interested in returning to college to further her education.

Proceeds also go to a number of regional charities.

Polus said she is pleased to be a part of the traditional event and hopes the community turns out to celebrate its agricultural history.

“There’s a lot of pride that goes into this Strawberry Festival,” she said. “People are very committed to the idea. It’s a tradition.”

The festival is a rain or shine event. In the case of rain, the event will be held at Hollis-Brookline Middle School.

Danielle Curtis can be reached at 594-6557 or dcurtis@nashuatelegraph.com. Also, follow Curtis on Twitter (Telegraph_DC).