The Windsor Ruritan Club’s annual Pig Pickin’ Festival proved to be a solid draw on Thursday, April 25, in its second year at the Heritage Park & Joel C. Bradshaw Fairgrounds.
This was the 48th year for the festival, which is the primary fundraiser for the WRC.
“I think it was a big success,” WRC Board Member Edward “Gibbie” Dowdy said Friday, April 26. “We made some improvements. We still have a few little areas that we’re going to work on to make things a little better for everybody, but overall, for being just the second year at that location, we’re headed in the right direction. We’re listening to any complaints we have, and we’re not hearing very many, so that’s a good thing.”
TowneBank was the main sponsor for the event, and Dowdy estimated that the total amount of funds raised from all the different sponsors involved was around $18,000 to $20,000.
Tickets to the festival covered a dinner consisting of barbecue, cole slaw, beans, cornbread and beverages.
Dowdy said that the WRC prepared around 3,000 pounds of barbecue.