A HEARTFELT THANK YOU!

There will never be enough ways to thank everyone who made this year’s Wine & Walleye Festival a weekend to remember! This festival was a perfect representation of what it looks like when our entire Ashtabula community comes together. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who made this possible —

• +Our amazing local wineries who participated: Buccia Vineyard, CLE Urban Winery, Day Dream Farms Winery, Hundley Cellars, Laurello Vineyards, Lincoln Way Vineyards, Maple Ridge Vineyard, Markko Vineyard, Silver Crest Cellars

• +Jim Timonere and his wonderful team of wine tent volunteers who worked hard all weekend long

• +Ashtabula Police and Fire for manning the fish tent (We sold out of all 1,000 lbs of Walleye!)

• +All of the incredible vendors who joined us!

• +The Lettie G. Howard for deck and sailing tours!

• +Every single artist who performed on both stages

• +Tim Watts, Christine Seuffert, Steve Hill & the Edgewood Cross Country team for spearheading our Guppy Run

• +All of our food trucks who dedicated their weekend to the festival

• +Our boat parade participants, judges, & Melissa Berry for organizing

• +Fishing Tournament participants & Kevin Severino for organizing (most sign ups in the history of the festival this year!)

• +Grand Finale Fireworks Displays for the amazing fireworks and our City of Ashtabula + iaff local fire for sponsoring them

• +Our local sponsors who this wouldn’t be possible without

• +Our bridge street merchants who ran with the Luau theme and created so many fun specials for everyone to enjoy!

• +Big Dog Bounce House for providing our Kidz Korner fun

• +Sunset Transportation for their donated shuttle service all weekend!

• +City of Ashtabula for DORA - that added such a fun element this year!

• +All of our volunteers who helped facilitate different aspects of the festival

• +Lakeside Football Team and Coach Henton for helping us take down the event

• +The City of Ashtabula & Historic Ashtabula Harbor (LBCA Board) for your joint planning efforts alongside Mary Church & Jennifer Pociask (Event Leads)

And last but certainly not least, our festival attendee’s! To the good people of Ashtabula, thank you for being here and to those who traveled to be here, we’re so grateful for your support! We couldn’t do it without each and every one of you and we can’t wait until next year!!!