A 30-year tradition gets some new twists as Sebago Days returns.

The additions span the ages with an antique tractor display and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s office fatal vision demonstration, in which individuals can drive a golf cart while wearing special goggles that simulate being drunk.

Secretary of the Sebago Days committee Ann Burns said the festival may have doubled in size from the very beginning, with the committee estimating that 2,000 people attended last year. With the Don Campbell Band playing on Friday night this year, Burns hopes for 2,500.

“It’s an opportunity for families to get together and do inexpensive activities,” Burns said. “It’s a big celebration of togetherness.”

Festivities will get started Thursday, July 17, with the midway opening behind the Sebago Elementary School at 6 p.m. On the midway will be food booths, crafters, informational booths, raffles and an antique tractor display.

Attendees will also have the chance to buy tickets for a series of bonus drawings. All tickets will go into a drum and more than 100 donated prizes will be awarded on Friday and Saturday.

Prizes include a Bear Creek canoe, a gift certificate for fuel, two picnic tables and a hand-crafted jelly cabinet. “That’s one of our big money makers,” Burns said, adding that the Sebago Days committee has to raise half of the $10,000 needed to put on the three-day event.

On Thursday there will be a talent show and performance by the Andy Pappas Band at 8 p.m. Don Campbell Band will play Friday at 7 p.m. and the Country Ridge Riders will play Saturday night at 8 p.m. Also on Saturday at 6:30 p.m., Imari and the Sahara Desert Dancers, a group of bellydancers will perform for their fifth year at Sebago Days. “They’re real popular,” Burns said.

The festival, which is free and open to the public, will wrap up with fireworks at dusk on Saturday.

Exotic belly dancing by will headling the entertainment Satruday, July 19 at Sebago Days.Sebago Days back for more family fun