Pig out at the 4th Annual Pig Party this weekend

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[-If you're hungry for some barbeque, you're in luck. This Friday and Saturday the fourth annual Randolph County Pig Party will be held in Steeleville.

Once again the event is sanctioned by both the Kansas City Barbeque Society and the Illinois Barbeque Society. The Pig Party will be a state championship event. Barbeque teams from throughout the Midwest will be competing for the $10,000 prize.

According to the event's organizer, Curt Jeffers, 40 teams have paid entry fees for this year's competition.

"In addition to the barbeque contest, we will also be having a wing competition and a home-made wine competition that local contestants may enter," Jeffers added.

The event runs from 6 p.m. Friday till midnight Saturday in front of the Steeleville City Hall on Sparta Street. Friday night competitions include "Wings, Dessert, Anything But and Shots" plus music by "The Way-Back Machine" and "Non Stop."

Saturday morning activities include a washer tournament and a kid zone that includes a dunk tank, bouncy house, and games, e.g., hula hoop toss, basketball challenge, dart toss, cake walk, bean bag toss, ping pong ball toss, lollipop tree, duck pond, and sponge throw. There'll be a face painter on hand, too.

There'll be a corporate cocktail and dinner party Saturday night and a dance featuring the "Well Hungarians."

Food vendors will be open both days. Admission to the party is free.