First Night Hazleton is made possible through the kind support of many sponsors and volunteers.  Our many thanks go out to these supporters of our 2008 event!

CONTRIBUTIONS IN KIND
All-Phase Electric Supply
APTS
ARC Electric
Capitol Square Diner
City of Hazleton, Police, Fire and Streets Departments
Citizen Publishing
Comfort Inn
Donut Connection
Fairfield Inn & Suites
Green's Communications, Inc.
Hampton Inn
Hershey Foods Corp.
Intrepid Detective Agency
Keystone Job Corps Center
Leader Services
PA DOT District 4
Precision Design
Quality Beverage
Ramada Inn
T. Verrastro Beer Distributing, Inc.
TEAM Supply
The New Broad Street Deli
Transfiguration Church
United Rentals

VENUES AVAILABLE COURTESY OF
Catholic Social Services
Christ Lutheran Church
City of Hazleton
First Presbyterian Church
J.J. Ferrara Performing Arts Center
Minsi Trails Boy Scouts
Trinity Lutheran Church
Temple Beth Israel
YMCA/YWCA of Greater Hazleton

CORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Lena Kotansky (Coordinator), City of Hazleton
Mayor Lou Barletta, City of Hazleton
Ron Andrae, Church Alive
Chris DeRienzo, D&P Multimedia
Jim Dino, Hazleton Standard-Speaker
Kathy Dobash, local artist, Beauty Flower Poem
Regina Drasher, community volunteer
Toni Englehart, WYLN
Sindylou Hoffman, community volunteer
Bob Judd, ARC Electric
Mike Korb, community volunteer
Allison Leonard, community volunteer
John Medashefski, local artist
Paula and Jennifer Mills, community volunteers
Al and AJ Onuschak, PPL Electric Utilities
Julie Pacelli, GH Chamber of Commerce
Tony Pacelli, WAZL
Ed Pane, Serento Gardens
Roberta Robbins, community volunteer
Nicole Simmons, Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania
April Snyder, Penn State Hazleton
Connie Teter, KNBT
Bill Waschko, WYLN
Eileen Whitaker, community volunteer

EVENT SPONSORS
City of Hazleton
Luzerne County Convention and Visitors Bureau/Pennsylvania State of Independence
Mayor’s Cup Golf Tournament
PA Council on the Arts/Scranton Area Foundation

PLATINUM SPONSORS
Cargill
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs – Premier Venue
Standard-Speaker – Fireworks
PPL – Grand Procession and Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides 

GOLD SPONSORS (Venues)
Alcoa Kama
George J. Hayden, Inc./Wendy’s
Penn State Hazleton
PNC Bank
Simona America
The Sign Spot
WYLN TV 35

SILVER SPONSORS
Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc.
McNelis Home Care
Bemis
Community Bank
First Liberty Bank & Trust
General Mills
KNBT
Luzerne County Community College
Pachence/Joyce Insurance
Service Electric Cablevision
The Simmons Company
Wal-Mart
Greater Hazleton Health Alliance
Inland Paperboard
The Luzerne Foundation
M&T Bank
Security Savings Foundation
Aliciene & Co.
Burger King
Forbo Flooring
Network Solutions
Slusser Law Firm
Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce

A SPECIAL THANKS to all who volunteered on First Night!

Thanks goes out to FNCB, which sponsored its Murder Mystery
Dinner Theater in 2007.
Thanks also to everyone who volunteered on First Night!

First Night Hazleton apologizes to any group or individual
whose name was inadvertently omitted due to oversight or
printing deadlines.