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  • Swine Week 2013 Auction Chair sophomore Molly Feigel stands among many of the Thunder items up for sale at the Memorial High School Swine Week Auction and dinner Saturday. Items include Thunder tickets, a signed Thunder basketball, signed player shirts and a basket of Thunder goodies among more than 250 other items. The dinner and silent auction begin at 5:30 p.m. with the silent auction followed by a live auction. PATTY MILLER | THE EDMOND SUN

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  • Memorial High School junior Hallie Ball shows some of the more than 250 items that will be for auction during the Swine Week 2013 Auction and dinner Saturday. PATTY MILLER | THE EDMOND SUN

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February 28, 2013

Memorial’s Swine Week Auction set for Saturday

Students: Week-long activities will be ‘hog wild’

Patty Miller The Edmond Sun

EDMOND — An Edmond Memorial sophomore has taken on one of the jobs of a lifetime — Swine Week Auction Chair.

Swine Week is a tradition at Memorial started more than 25 years ago when the student body raised $3,000 to help an ill student.

“We only did it (fundraising) with the students in the school, and now the entire community is involved,” said Helen Peters in an earlier interview. Peters was the 1986 Memorial Student Council sponsor, who left public school teaching for a position at the University of Central Oklahoma in 1997.

Molly Feigel has been working since Feb. 1 along with more than 230 Student Council members and Royalty (couples who are charged with raising money) to come up with donations.

With more than 250 items donated, the auctions will take place from 5:30-9 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, 1001 S. Rankin St., in Edmond.

Tickets may be purchased in advance at the school for $10 or for $15 at the door. The price includes dinner provided by Earl’s Catering, a silent and a live auction.

Each person purchasing a ticket also will receive an auction book with the items to be sold listed and a bid card.

“All the money raised will go to Limbs for Life, a global nonprofit organization based in Oklahoma City, to be used to provide prosthetics for Oklahomans,” Molly said. “The national average for an above-the-knee prothesis is $16,500 and $7,000 for a below-the-knee prothesis.”

Limbs for Life provides a financial bridge between low-income amputees and the quality care needed to restore their lives, Molly said.

“Since 1995, Limbs for Life has helped more the 7,700 amputees to obtain the prosthetic care that enabled them to move forward with their lives. At this time, however, Limbs for Life has a waiting list of more than 200 amputees in need of assistance,” Molly said.

Junior Hallie Ball said with the $2,000 that is targeted to be raised by the dinner and auction, Limbs for Life will be able to clear its Waiting List.

Swine Week 2013 will be March 11-15 with the final afternoon assembly revealing how much the students raised. All of the week-long activities are planned, organized and run by Memorial Student Council members and students.

“Our goal this year is to raise $350,000,” Mollie said, “but as always, we would love to go over our goal.”

Auction items include a portrait of Winston Churchill made by his daughter, all types of Thunder items including a signed basketball, tickets to games, an Italian custom-made men’s suit, men’s shoes, a weekend at Beavers Bend, yoga baskets, photography packages, senior portrait packages, an Oklahoma State University football, a basketball signed by Blake Griffin and Taylor Griffin, a University of Oklahoma signed women’s team basketball, a Kendrick Perkins signed and framed shirt, a collage of Adrian Peterson’s college programs, gift certificates for restaurants, movies, Kate Spade and Coach handbags, Beyonce tickets for a live performance, tickets to After the Final Rose including two nights in a hotel and a chance to meet host Chris Harrison, and four courtside Thunder tickets (worth $1,024) including two parking permits and more.

Since 1986 when the first Swine Week was held, more than $3 million has been raised. Last year Swine Week raised $475,709 for Oklahoma Project Woman.

Memorial students join the other Edmond high school students at North High School, Santa Fe High School and Boulevard Academy as each of the schools choose a nonprofit to support.

Five percent of all monies raised from the three high schools goes to a common cause, known as the Common Thread, a local nonprofit. This year the recipient of the Common Thread monies is A New Leash on Life. The organization changes people’s lives by developing the special abilities of service dogs and therapy dogs.

To make a donation to Swine Week, March 11-15, call 726-6868 or visit www.swineweek.org.

Donations of all types are accepted, including monetary donations or donations of service. Checks can be made payable to “EMHS Swine Week” and mailed to Edmond Memorial at 1000 E. 15th St., Edmond, OK 73013. All donations are tax deductible.

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