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)
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)