Bill Text: SC H5197 | 2017-2018 | 122nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Poultry Festival
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 79-44)
Status: (Passed) 2018-04-09 - Introduced, adopted, returned with concurrence [H5197 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2017-H5197-Introduced.html
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
TO CELEBRATE THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA POULTRY FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN BATESBURG-LEESVILLE ON MAY 10-12, 2018, AND TO HONOR THOSE PLANNING AND PARTICIPATING IN THE FESTIVAL.
Whereas, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly are pleased to learn that the South Carolina Poultry Festival will celebrate its thirty-second year at this year's festival in Batesburg-Leesville from May 10 through 12, 2018; and
Whereas, employing thousands of citizens, South Carolina's billion-dollar poultry industry annually produces, processes, and markets vast amounts of eggs, broilers, turkeys, pigeons, quail, and spring chickens; and
Whereas, Lexington, Saluda, and Aiken counties serve as home to some of the state's top broiler producers, including such household names as Amick Farms, Columbia Farms, and Gentry Poultry Company; and
Whereas, in 1986, Batesburg-Leesville restaurant owner Sara Shealy hatched the idea of a poultry festival based in Lexington County to showcase the state's largest agri-business, and the Leesville Merchants Association created a festival from her proposal; and
Whereas, one year later, the Ridge Poultry Festival was held, hosting approximately twenty thousand visitors. The event became the South Carolina Poultry Festival in 1989, and in recent years its attendance has exceeded one hundred thousand people; and
Whereas, today the festival features six stages offering continuous entertainment, various food vendors, a three-day carnival, a parade with one hundred plus units, commercial vendors, and abundant crafters; and
Whereas, the event presents the best of Southern hospitality, and proceeds regularly support various local charities, organizations, and community causes while hosting the festival's own "#1 World's Best Chicken Cooking Contest"; and
Whereas, guests anticipate an impressive antique car and collector show, an antique tractor show, a five-kilometer road race, a volleyball tournament, and evening street dancing; and
Whereas, a spectacular display of the American spirit will conclude the festival on Saturday evening in one of the largest pyro-musical shows available; and
Whereas, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly commend the planners and participants of the thirty-second annual South Carolina Poultry Festival and appreciate the beneficial impact of the poultry industry on the economy of the Palmetto State. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, celebrate the thirty-second anniversary of the South Carolina Poultry Festival held in Batesburg-Leesville on May 10-12, 2018, and honor those planning and participating in the festival.
