The frost isn’t on the pumpkin yet and the day time highs are still hitting the lower 90s.

It’s a typical first weekend in October for weather meaning it’s time to roll out the fruit that made Manteca famous — pumpkins.

The Manteca Pumpkin Fair opens today at 10 a.m. in downtown and goes to 6 p.m. It’s the same hours for Sunday. 

It’s the 51st annual Pumpkin Fair but the 36th under the tutelage of the Sunrise Kiwanis.

More than 150 vendors will be selling everything from jewelry to Lockeford Sausage during the two-day downtown event.

The free Kids Zone under the stately sycamore trees at Library Park is open both days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can watch kids search for the perfect pumpkin, try their luck at rolling one of the orange fruits, see how far they can spit a pumpkin seed and find out just how much fun it is to go wild and try to win a pumpkin pie eating contest.

And if you’d like to enjoy some wholesome entertainment presented by your neighbors and kids, stop by the community stage. You’ll find it in Library Park.

The Main Stage entrainment is by the beer garden where Pumpkin Fair after Dark takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. featuring a free screening of the horror comedy movie “Beetlejuice.”

There is a tractor show on Saturday and a car show on Sunday.

The event has raised more than $1 million to assist Manteca area non-profits since the Sunrise Kiwanis took over.