HOGEYE STROLL KICKS OFF HOGEYE 2022

We kick off the Hogeye Festival weekend with the Hogeye Stroll Thursday, October 20, from 5 to 9 with the Hogalicious Dessert Contest, the Pearls Before Swine Art Show, store specials and refreshments. The Pearls Before Swine Art Show features artists from Central Texas in all mediums. The opening gala is Thursday evening and attendees share their votes to select The Hogeye Pearl or People’s Choice winner for the show. The show will be at The Clever Tiger, 114 Depot Street, through Saturday October 22. The Hogalicious Dessert Contest will be at Firewild, located at 201 North Main Street with categories in pies and cakes for youth, adults, and commercial bakers – this is an evening of creativity displayed through sugar, eggs, butter and milk. You’ll be amazed at the beauty of the entries and to go boxes with a sampling of desserts will be available for a donation. Downtown businesses will be open late with refreshments, store specials, tastings, live music and more.  Enjoy an evening of fun, look for the Sowpremes and kick off Hogeye Festival weekend in style!    

FRIDAY NIGHT FREE STREET DANCE
with KENNY ORTS AND NO CHANCE BAND

Kenny Orts and No Chance Band will play from 8 pm - Midnight on Depot Street.
The carnival will be open and vendors at the dance will include Smash Daddies Burgers, Pecos Pete's Natural Tea and Sodas, Kettle Corn and the VFW Post 6115 with a variety of beer, soda and water. You can dance the night away with Kenny who started playing when he was 13 with the Westernaires. Bring a chair and plan to spend the evening in beautiful downtown Elgin!

PARKING LOGISTICS

NO PARKING ON THESE STREETS OR IN PARKING LOTS MIDNIGHT FRI., OCT. 21 TO 9PM SAT., OCT. 22

FREE FESTIVAL SHUTTLE

FREE Festival Shuttle 10am – 6pm Saturday, Oct. 22
every fifteen minutes from Elgin Recreation Center to 2nd Street at Avenue C.
Limited Parking at City Hall, First Baptist Church and First Presbyterian Church – please use shuttle or park outside the traffic control area of the festival. The Main Street Board and the City of Elgin produce the Hogeye Festival with the support of local businesses and Hogunteers. Proceeds benefit the downtown revitalization program and fund projects such as promotional events like Sip Shop & Stroll, Public art, like the mural at 116 Depot Street, advertising throughout the year, downtown 78621, entrepreneurial support classes, sidewalk improvements, the LED lights on top of buildings, and more. Thank you for being part of downtown Elgin! 
 
Stacey Gruetzner Wilhite and Theresa McShan Festival Co-chairs
Kristina Alvarez, Main Street Manager 737-308-3669 kristina.alvarez@elgintexas.gov

CLOSE TO 200 VENDORS at HOGEYE 2022!

The Hogeye Festival is sponsored by the Elgin Main Street Board, an organization supporting downtown revitalization, the City of Elgin, and is underwritten by area businesses. Proceeds from the festival go toward downtown improvement projects ranging from new sidewalks to beautification. The free festival Saturday, October 22 features live music and entertainment on two stages, handmade arts and crafts, children’s activities, a children’s costume pet parade, a carnival, Road Hog Car Show, BBQ Pork Cook-Off, Vintage Farm Equipment display, Cow Patty Bingo, the Pearls Before Swine Art Show, and great festive food!  Free Hogeye Street Dance with Kenny Orts and No Chance is Friday October 21. Elgin is a Texas Main Street City and has been recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a National Main Street Community since 1999.  Over the past 35 years more than $23 million has been reinvested in Elgin’s downtown district.

2022 HOGEYE FESTIVAL MAP

What's happening in Elgin?

What’s happening in Elgin? Find out at the City of Elgin information booth. Visit with city staff, Mayor McShan and council members. Sign up for City of Elgin 101. Find the booth near the Prosperity Bank ATM machine and To The Point Blade and Sharpening shop in the 31 N. Main block of Main Street--One block south of Cow Patty Bingo and the Hogeye T-shirt Sales Pig Sty which are at First Street and Main Street.  
 
A PICTURE WITH PRISCILLA
Get your picture made with Priscilla the Pig and the Elgin Sesquicentennial float!  They will be on 2nd street near the free festival shuttle drop-off and across from Dollar General. 
 
HOGEYE FESTIVAL T-SHIRTS FOR SALE
Limited quantities available. Buy early at Dorothy’s Jewelry 104 Depot Street or day of the festival at the Pig Sty First Street and Main Street. Hogeye is celebrating the sesquicentennial with limited edition reusable shopping bags available at the Pig sty!! 
 
DID WE MENTION COW PATTY BINGO??!!!
Buy tickets at the Hogeye stroll, the street dance or the festival. 1200 tickets - the grand prize winner determined by the plop of a local cow!  On festival day find the bingo grid, meet the cow and buy your tickets at First Street and Main Street between Rainey Real Estate and Prosperity bank!  
 
NEED CASH SATURDAY?
Cadence Bank / Bancorp South at 207 N Main Street in the kids activities area and across from city hall or Prosperity Bank ATM machine at 31 N. Main, near Cow Patty Bingo.   
 
FOR THE KIDS - Grown folks can have fun too!!
Kids activities, games and more provided by local groups, vendors, the City of Elgin Parks and Recreation program and the Elgin Public library north of the traffic light at 2nd street and Main Street. Find the tides and games of chance at the Carnival on Depot Street.   
 
LOST AND FOUND 
We hope you don’t lose anything but if you do or if you find something - go to the Pig Sty at First Street and Main Street.  
 
FIRST AID 
Staffed by Lutra Care, Home Care Services and our very own LuAnn James, RN in Veterans Memorial Park by the railroad tracks. Next to BBQ Cook Off and across from Baby Clay the World’s Largest Brick brought to us by Acme.  

THANK YOU TO OUR HOGEYE SPONSORS!

You make this event possible!

WHOLE HOG | $3500
H-E-B
TRC Engineers, Inc.
OnePointe Solutions
Brohn Homes

BACONATOR | $2,500
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
Pecos Pete Soda
Aviator Pizza

HOG WILD | $2,000
Carr Lane Manufacturing
Acme Brick
Circle Brewing Company
Lennar Homes

HOGS & KISSES | $1,000
Aqua Water Supply
Meyers Sausage Company
Rainey Real Estate
McDonalds of Elgin
Lower Colorado River Authority
Prosperity Bank
Independence Title
Jeanette Shelby Realty
PrimaVesta Land Company LLC
Durcon, Inc.
Frontier Ban\k of Texas
GrantWorks
First National Bank of Bastrop County
Elgin General Store
Post Oak Hardware
Southside Market & BBQ
Studio 16:19
Nixon Engineering
King's Portable Thrones

REAL HAM | $500
Elgin Veterinary Hospital
Waeltz & Prete Civil Engineers
Sandy Menley-Winkler Real Estate
FireWild on Main
Dorothy's Fine Jewelry
Roscoe Bank/Cornerstone
Cadence Bank

OINKER | $250
Elgin Farmers' Market
Edward Jones - Jay Sutton
Centex Designs

SATURDAY STAGE LINE-UP

A Hogeye Welcome, a DJ, and Live Bands will be performing on two stages this year at Hogeye. At the Veterans' Park Stage you'll receive a big Hogeye Welcome by the Sowpremes at 11 a.m. followed by DJ ReeseBoi from 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. ending the day with the Gordon Swenson BBQ Cook-off Awards presentation at 5:00 p.m. On the 1st Street Stage The Monty Thomas Family Band will start off the show at 10:00 a.m. followed by The Gypsy Drifters at 11:15 a.m. At 12:30 p.m., Shop Dawgz will perform followed by the Allen Lee Band at 2:00 p.m. and then Ben Zuniga at 3:15 p.m. Rumores will be our final performance on the 1st Street Stage at 4:45 p.m.

HOGEYE WEEK ALL WEEK!

What is City of Elgin 101?

* Citizen's Academy to teach residents about the day-to-day functions of local government
* Showcase the talents of staff

When is the program?

* 8 Sessions
* Monday evenings from 6 - 8 p.m. beginning on January 23rd through the Graduation Ceremony April 2023
* Full schedule is online and exact locations will be sent to participants.

How do I apply?

* Application opens on October 1st and closes November 29th on the city's website. (Click on link under City of Elgin 101 image.)
* 20 residents will be selected and notified if selected in December.
* Must be a City of Elgin resident.

A Special Election will be held on November 8, 2022

"Shall an initiative petition be approved to eliminate enforcement of low-level marijuana offenses in the City of Elgin?" On Election Day, a Travis County voter may vote at Elgin High School, 14000 County Line Rd., and a Bastrop County voter may vote at the Elgin Recreation Center, 361 N. Hwy. 95, from 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. For early voting locations and times, please visit our website. Link is above.

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