Giving the Pig Wings

  Another monthly PARADE REPORT- August 4th, 2023

     I brought the watermelon, Bryce, the red licorice, and Cypress & Grove provided the beer for Wednesday's Flying Pig Parade meeting. It went well.

     Ten of us gathered at our favorite 10th Ave brewery to discuss the latest on December's parade. 

 

 

    

   Most of our work continues to focus on fund-raising. We have applied for 7 grants. We rec'd one, did not receive two, and are waiting to hear about the other four.

 

      In the mean time we are beginning to reach out to the G'ville

business community to see who will help us create a terrific new event for our city. Speaking of, the City of G may change its mind about giving us some help.  If they do, we will know in a month.

      Treasurer's report- We have rec'd four donations from individuals

and one homeowner's association totaling $800.  The city's redevelopment agency gave us a $2500 grant which means we'll get that $ in January.  We have spent around $100 on flyers, $250 for

a traffic engineer's fee and $22 to convert kitty litter containers in to aerial oinkers.

Michael and Carol's garden pig

     We have $428 in our account, $2500 expected in January, and need to raise another $9000.

      We hope to cover this with grants, donations, and a Go-Fund-Me campaign  (Savannah volunteered to head that project). 

 

      A new member of our crewe, Mark Newman, is well-known as the

former co-owner of Leonardo's 706 restaurant. The talented businessman/chef has offered to put together a fund-raising dinner at his beautiful home on Hogtown Creek. 

More on that later.

 

     While Hutch was not at the meeting, he let me know our parade would greatly benefit by having a large flying pig balloon. We're looking into that.  While Shirley Lasseter could not be there either, she gave me glow-in-the

dark pigs to pass out. Much appreciated they were.

     We kicked around a few parade ideas like having UF faculty members marching with their mouths taped shut and having our governor wrestle Micky Mouse (or Kamela Harris...or both) in the procession.

     Hopefully the funding part will soon end and we can concentrate on making the world's first flying Pig parade the greatest event ever.

 

Hangin' in there,

-Glenn