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City of Elgin Newsletter
City of Elgin, TX
310 N. Main Street
Elgin, Texas 78621
(512)281-5724
www.elgintx.com
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Hogeye Stroll to Kick-Off 2023 Hogeye Festival WeekendTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023, 5-8 P.M. We kick off the Hogeye Festival weekend with the Hogeye Stroll Thursday, October 26, 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 28. 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! |
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FRIDAY NIGHT FREE STREET DANCE
with KENNY ORTS AND NO CHANCE BANDFriday, October 27 from 8 p.m. - Midnight Kenny Orts and No Chance Band will play from 8 pm - Midnight on Depot Street.
Vendors at the dance will include Smash Daddies Burgers, Pecos Pete's Natural Tea and Sodas, Kettle Corn, the VFW Post 6115 with a variety of beer, soda and water, and MSG Goodz with light-ups for the kids. 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! |
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PARKING LOGISTICSWest First Street will be closed from Main Street to the alley Friday, October 27th through Saturday, October 28th at 8pm Central Avenue from Main Street to Avenue C will be closed Friday October 27th until Saturday October 28th at 8pm.
Depot Street Museum parking lot and Central Avenue from Main Street to Avenue C will be closed Friday, October 21 5am through Saturday, October 28th at 8pm
Depot Street from Main Street to Avenue C will be closed Friday, October 27th to Saturday, October 28th at 8pm
NO PARKING ON THESE STREETS OR IN PARKING LOTS MIDNIGHT FRI., OCT. 27 TO 9PM SAT., OCT. 28The City of Elgin will close the following streets and lots from 4:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. Saturday October 28th for the festival:
MAIN STREET >> Lexington to Austin Street
AVENUE B >> Austin Street to First Street
CENTRAL AVENUE >> Main Street to Avenue A
DEPOT STREET >> Main Street to Avenue B
1ST STREET >> Avenue C - Avenue E
2ND STREET >> Avenue C to Avenue E
DEPOT SQUARE and the MUSEUM parking lot
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE parking lot
PROSPERITY BANK parking lots (side and rear)
BANCORP SOUTH / CADENCE BANK parking lot
LOTS ON CENTRAL AND DEPOT >> Avenue A to Avenue C
TOWING ENFORCED AFTER 4:00 A.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 28.
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FREE FESTIVAL SHUTTLEFREE Festival Shuttle 10am – 6pm Saturday, Oct. 28
every fifteen minutes from Elgin Recreation Center to 2nd Street at Avenue C.
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, 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 |
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200 VENDORS at HOGEYE 2023!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 28 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 27. 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. |
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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 at City Hall, 310 N. Main block of Main Street--North 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.
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THANK YOU TO OUR HOGEYE SPONSORS!You make this event possible! |
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SATURDAY 1ST STREET STAGE LINE-UPA Hogeye Welcome, DJ ReeseBoi starting and the SowPremes Hogeye Welcome on the Veterans Stage. At 3 p.m. listen for the Car Show Winners Announcement. and end 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 Brooke Eden at 11:15 a.m. At 12:30 p.m., Chubby Knuckle Choir will perform followed by Ben Zuniga at 2:00 p.m. and then The Sowpremes at 2:45 p.m. Kane Alvarado at 3:15 p.m. and the Allen Lee Band will be our final performance on the 1st Street Stage at 4:45 p.m. |
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