Swine Week
Established in 1986, Swine Week is a week-long community service project at Edmond Memorial which has raised over $3 million. In 2008 the Swine Week theme was Viva Hog Vegas, which raised over $265,000 (after expenses) for the Oklahoma Family Center for Autism. In 2009, the theme was Pigelodeon (and it raised $318,919 (after expenses) for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In 2010, the theme was "Piggie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." It raised a record breaking $527,704.88 for the Jimmy Everest Children's Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. The theme for 2011 was "Hoggy Potter", and it raised $462,768.85 for the Oklahoma Children's Heart Disease Center. The theme for 2012 is "Pigsney World." It raised an outstanding amount of 475,000 for Oklahoma Project Woman.
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Famous quotes containing the words swine and/or week:
“The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“A baby nurse is one that changes diapers and loves ‘em dearly. Get up at all hours of the night to give ‘em the bottle and change their pants. If the baby coughs or cries, you have to find out the need. I had my own room usually, but I slept in the same room with the baby. I would take full charge. It was twenty-four hours. I used to have one day a week off and I’d go home and see my own two little ones.”
—Ruth Lindstrom (c. 1892–?)