The Emlenton Summer Festival Committee would like to thank all those that volunteered, sponsored & helped out to make Summer Festival 2025 a great success!
- Editor

- Jul 26
- 2 min read
Top Sponsors: Emlenton Civic Club • Emlenton Borough • Emlenton VFD, • Kings HVAC • Acme Welding & Custom Fab Inc. • Helpler’s Meats • Hovis Truck Service & Sales Inc • FRB Machine

Festival Sponsors:
Allegheny Mountain Hardwood • Chapel on the Hill
Darrel Blauser Contracting • Deible Landscaping Inc
Ecks Dirt Works • Emlenton IGA
Farmers National Bank • Gardenscape
Heeter Lumber • Hickman Lumber
Hile Funeral Homes • Linmas Drugs
L&J’s Automotive Repair LLC • Mattern CPA LLC
Otto’s Tavern • Roy Calvin McGinnis VFW Post 7073
Sherman Auto Repair • The Plaza Restaurant
The Progress News
Advertising Sponsors:
Allegheny I-80 Campground • Central Electric Cooperative
Krupa Convenience Inc/Uni-Mart
Sponsors:
Amazing Stitches • Emlenton Fitness Center
Emlenton Storage, LP • Fisher’s Greenhouse
Heath Oil Inc • Ice Cream Parlor of Emlenton
JM Beatty Furniture
Thank you to our Events Sponsors:
Amy Whitehill – Kids Frog Jumping contest (Hosted by Dancing Witches of Emlenton)
Chapel on the Hill – Riverbend Rainbow Run 5k & Kids Bike Race
Emlenton Ambulance – Kids Scavenger Hunt
Emlenton Rod & Gun Club – Junior Fishing Derby
(Thank you to Whitehall Campground for use of the pond.)
Car Cruise Sponsors:
Howard Hanna Real Estate – Seneca PA • Oil Boom Saloon
Allegheny Grille • Adams Contracting
Levi’s Lawn Care • Sonneborn Shipping Department
Advantage Whitetails Inc • Hile Funeral Home
4 Your Car Connection • Foxburg Inn • Foxburg Winery
Foxburg Pizza • Chris’s Tire • Hovis Auto Wrecking
Protek Metals • Old State Farms
Blue Ox Timber • Cranberry McDonalds
Jim and Cindy Rapp • Hardwood Mall
Dale and Barb Helpler • Rich Mosko
Jenny McGuirk • Jarah Heeter, MDJ District 18-3-03
Chase Wenner • Kat and Bre
R. Lee James, PA State Representative 64th District
Thank you to those that participated in Touch-A-Truck:
Emlenton VFD • Emlenton Ambulance• Emlenton Borough Police
Venango County Sheriff Office • Heeter Lumber
Ecks Dirt Work• Hovis Truck Service & Sales
HomeRoad Ranch/Arlos
Special Thank You to:
Emlenton Borough Police for keeping us all safe.
Kelsey Ziegler, Steve King, Cindy Restauri, Tom Cooper, Amy Whitehill, Tina Zychowski,
Chris Hile & all Civic Club members that supported this year’s festival.
Pam Wenner – family & friends for organizing and hosting the Car Cruise.
Whitney Banks, Karen Farkas and
Chapel on the Hill for organizing and hosting our first Riverbend Rainbow Run 5k
Debe Southworth and Marianna Zychowski for organizing and hosting Dime Toss (and all Civic Club members who also helped out)
A La Carte Catering – amazing food at the Car Cruise
Emlenton Ambulance & Emlenton Medical Corp for providing electric and water for vendors. Emlenton Presbyterian Church for hosting the new Sponsorship Wall
Emlenton IGA for hosting the Baby Beautiful contest
Venango County 4H Teen Council for allowing us to use their Cornhole Boards
Pyrotecnico for the awesome fireworks display
All vendors that participated in this year’s festival
4-H Electrotechs for hosting an open house
DJ Phil Close for the awesome music during the festival
Our Sunday clean-up crew – Jim Best, Steve King, Bill & Wendy Hindman, Debe Southworth and Sue & Cora Courson.
And finally, to all that visited the festival, patronizing the vendors and supporting local businesses.
See everyone in 2026!!













