Refinery personnel have planned several events in celebration this week, recognizing the facility’s 25th anniversary under ARG ownership with past and present employees, suppliers, customers, producers, partners and the surrounding community.

A custom, commemorative brew – the Halloran Anniversary Lager – was launched in partnership with the Bradford Brew Station in July, and is still available on tap at the Chestnut Street brewery. A billboard installed earlier this year along U.S. Route 219 North near Foster Brook thanks Harry Halloran for the quarter-century the Bradford refinery has now spent doing business as ARG.

Activities kicked off Sunday with the ARG Open golf scramble for employees, family and friends at Pine Acres Country Club. Customers, suppliers and partners arrive today for picnics, sporting clays, golf, and refinery and museum tours scheduled throughout the week.

The ARG Board of Directors will take part in facility tours, lunch, dinner and its regular quarterly meeting on Friday. Fireworks launched over the Tunungwant Valley from Oak Hill Cemetery will cap the day, no earlier than 9 p.m. that evening.

The week culminates Saturday with the annual ARG Family Picnic, returning to Mystic Water Resort in Limestone, N.Y., this year. Kay Halloran and all four of Harry Halloran’s sons – Neil, Brian, Kevin and Mark – and their families will attend to remember her husband and their father, and to celebrate his and ARG employees’ contributions to the refinery and the Bradford community during the last 25 years.