Item #583: $35,000 to Dooly County to improve the Big Pig Jig Site”
Apr 9th 2007Chris Farrisp0rk
The Big Pig Jig is an annual affair held each October in Vienna. It is a contest to see who can barbecue the best whole pig. The Big Pig site itself is an hodge-podge of unpainted wooden structures reminiscent of some third world housing area. The Big Pig Building itself is a small faded cinder block structure with the cartoon below painted on it saying: “Welcome to the Big Pig Jig”. The appropriation for $35,000 is to “improve the site”.
Apparently the Big Pig appropriation has been an annual funding dating back to its origins in 1992.
The Representative for Dooly County is Johnny Wilson Floyd - first elected in 1989 as a Democrat and recently “converted” as a Republican. Mr. Floyd is quite wealthy and is the Chairman of the Ameris-Cordele Bank, President & Owner of Floyd Timber Co. and President of Cordele Realty.
HT: Bill Kecskes for describing the site.
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