The 4th annual Union County Firemen’s Festival will be Friday Sept. 6  and Saturday Sept. 7. The weekend will be full of trucks, tractors, cars, live bands, chicken dinners, prk burgers, FFA ice cream, shaved ice, basket raffles, bounce house, face painting, balloon art, beer garden and more. The festival will be at the West College Corner Volunteer Fire Department, 112 Union St, West College Corner. 

“It goes towards a good cause, all we make on our festival is used to keep up with maintenance & buying equipment to best serve our community,” shared West Colleg Corner VFD Firefighter Ryan Niehoff. “It is for both West College Corner VFD & Liberty VFD. It is a great time to relax and enjoy the small town vibes.” 

Friday

•Basket raffle - 4 to 9 p.m.

•Pork burgers and fries - 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

•Tractor/semi show - 5 to 9 p.m.

•Kiddie Tractor Pull and races - 6 p.m.(top three in each class gets toy tractors)

 •Beer garden - 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

•DJ (4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

•Miss Jacque and Band - 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

“On Friday night we have a semi truck show,” said Niehoff. “We judge the trucks and give out 20 awards to trucks. We have everything from big towing company rotators to farm semi trucks. We also give away door prizes.”

Saturday

•Tractor ride - 9 a.m. (lunch following)

•Basket raffle - 4 to 8 p.m.

•Chicken dinner - 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

•Tractor show - All day

•Car show - 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (registration starts at noon)

•Beer garden - 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.

•DJ - 2 to 9 p.m.

•Kevin McCoy Band - 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.

“On Saturday, we give away door prizes every half hour to the participants of the car show,” Niehoff continued. “We also give away best of show trophy and over 50 other trophies for the car show. We make some of the trophies ourselves out of old car parts.”

About the bands

Kevin McCoy Band

BMI artist, CMA member and Nashville recording artist, Kevin McCoy is a singer-songwriter who combines rock & R&B influences and his unmistakable country voice with impeccable range to create a style of music all his own. Kevin and a melting pot of classic heavy western, southern rock-n-rollers by his side make up the hard hitting Kevin McCoy Band.

Miss Jacque and band is a cover band from Cincinnati playing bars, weddings, private parties, school dances/proms, festivals, and more in the tri-state area. The band has  four members:

•Miss Jacque - lead singer

•Chase Stevens - “Bass on Stilts” 

•Kyle Neidermeier - an absolute shredder on the guitar (and, c’mon, look at that hair)

•Kyle Robbins - drummer extraordinaire (but a very sleepy boi)

“It’s just a good weekend for others to relax and see people they may not get to see often,” Niehoff said. “Our firefighters and our wives put in a lot of work leading up to the event.”