Pavo Civic Club prepares for Peacock Festival

Payton Fletcher, Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Ga.
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Apr. 30—The Pavo Civic Club will be hosting the 35th Annual Peacock Festival, or Peacock Day, May 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 2061 West McDonald St.

Jimmy Brock, the newly elected president of the Pavo Civic Club, said that the event was started by Ruby Lee Johnson, a local librarian, in 1988 to fund pillars of the community, such as the library.

"After the first year, they ended up turning it over to the Pavo Civic Club," Brock said, "and now we raise money for the school and for the library."

The money also goes to other events hosted by the Pavo Civic Club within the town, according to Brock.

"We do a lot of community projects. We have community dances, we have a food bank, we have a basketball tournament every year," he said, "We're non-profit, so we're giving it back to the community."

The festival will include a parade, a cake walk, door raffles, a slow pitch softball tournament, a raffle for a homemade quilt, a OneBlood Big Red Bus for blood donations and various vendors selling food, drinks and an assortment of jewelries, candles and other things.

For the parade, Granvil Jones will be acting as grand marshal.

According to Brock, Charlie the Peacock, the mascot of Pavo, will be in attendance as well as other peacocks from a farm owned by Pavo local Elaine Dick. Live entertainment will also be provided by Winds of Change, a classic rock cover band from southern Georgia.

Two different clogging groups, JCS Cloggers and Hahira Cloggers, also will be in attendance.

Elected this past February, Brock said that organizing the festival, with the other 25 members of the Pavo Civic Club, was an enjoyable experience and resonated with his history as a supervisor.

According to him, the Peacock Festival offers an experience that other festivals don't always come with.

"One is the hometown appeal. It's kind of laid-back. It's a country setting, underneath the oak trees," he said, "You know, there's a lot of enjoyment. We try to do things for all ages."

He added that, during the festival, they would be paying honor to a veteran or retired veteran.

For more information, contact Jimmy Brock at (229) 264-1486 or go to the festival's website at www.peacockday.com.

Payton Fletcher can be reached at 229-226-2400, ext. 1826