DIXON – With the Petunia Festival less than a month away, organizers are looking for volunteers to man the gates, sell tickets, set it up and knock it down.

The area’s biggest festival also will be the testing ground for a tent for breast-feeding moms, put up by a task force comprised of Lee and Whiteside county health departments and KSB and CGH hospital officials.

“Our numbers are way down in this area for breast-feeding,” said Rebecca Canales, who is a public health nurse with Lee County. “We have such a need right here just in Lee and Whiteside counties to get it out there that it’s a wonderful thing to support our breast-feeding moms.”