ROY is a large group of hard-working, fun-loving volunteers striving to make our quaint little community even more attractive and interesting. We include local business owners, residents, and elected officials working in partnership with the Borough of Youngsville (BOY) and the Warren County Chamber of Business and Industry to improve the quality of life in Youngsville for those who live here and
for those who decide to visit our little slice of heaven. The Revitalization Of Youngsville Association (ROY) organized in 2004 using the Pennsylvania Downtown Center model of four committees. In an effort to arrange in an orderly system, while working to enhance quality of life in the Warren County Youngsville Area, ROY volunteers group our projects into one of the above committees. Our history is that when Youngsville Area organized, ROY was one of four communities in Warren County within the County Main Street Program (https://padowntown.org) who operated under the umbrella of the Warren County Economic Opportunities Council (the EOC). Currently, ROY operates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Financial contributions to our projects and programs are tax-deductible. Projects completed:
- The A'Mazing Corn Festival became a yearly event from 2004 to 2014.
- Bike/Hike Trail in Youngsville
- New Streetscape beginning on Railroad Street from Rt. 6 to East Main Street
- Got the approval from Penn Dot and Youngsville Borough to paint faux stone-work images on the downtown bridge.
- Ten new facades on downtown businesses:
1. Bowers Barber Show
2. Northwest Bank
3. Kozy Corner Laundromat
4. Down-Under Restaurant/ Bar
5. First United Methodist Church
6. Restore
7. Youngsville Hardware
8. Holmberg Hair Salon / Ralston Computer Services, LLC
9. Paul Leofsky Apartments
10. Miss Millie's Proper Petals
- ROY Children's Summer Theater
- YABA Days Community Yard Sales
- Coordinated community events such as the Halloween Haunted Trail, a Halloween Parade, Garage sales, Hometown Town Christmas, etc.
- Hometown Heroes Banners - ROY was the first ones in the area to establish the hometown hero's banner project.
- ROY wrote grants, in cooperation with the Borough of Youngsville (BOY), from both local and government sources to fund improvements. Also, we did other fund raising, such as bake sales, ROY memberships.
- Youngsville Area competed for and became a Rt. 6 Heritage Community, in which a consultant, funded by the state with ROY's match of $2000, was hired to evaluate Youngsville's needs and improvement opportunities. As a heritage community, Youngsville entered into a year long process to develop a long team work plan, completed in 2010.
- As a heritage community Youngsville was entitled to get grant money for Rt. 6, Lumber heritage and PA Wilds.
- Route 6 Clean up
- Signage - Welcome to Youngsville Rt. 6 Corridor
- Sponsored Town-wide clean up- everyone cleaned up their property and downtown
- every effort was made to include share ownership of the revitalization of Youngsville. we wanted everyone to participate as much as they could even if it was just to clean up their own property. everyone could come to any of the committee volunteers with idea and to share ownership of projects.
- Wrote for and received Heart and Soul grant. Current projects include:
- Heart & Soul is developing a new generation of community revitalization.
- 2023 Corn Festival remodeled
- Streetscape improvements beginning on East Main at bridge to Bates Street
- New facades on downtown businesses
- Community Yard Sales
