Bigfoot will help send Talihina students to college.
A fundraiser Thursday, April 30, will raise scholarship money for graduating college-bound Talihina seniors.
Talihina’s Masonic Lodge # 73 voted Monday night to back the scholarships with $1,000 in matching funds, said Tom Hefner, head of the Bigfoot Scholarship Fund.
A dinner and pie auction will be held at 6:30 pm Thursday, April 30, at the Talihina school. All proceeds will go to scholarships for Talihina seniors, he said.
“For every dollar you spend,” Hefner said of the fundraiser, “We will take in two, up to $1,000.”
The plate dinner will be $5. The pie auction will follow.
In March, a Bigfoot Scholarship pie supper in Clayton raised over $4,600. With a $500 gift from Masons there and other donations, a check for $5,398 was given to Clayton for scholarships.
Hefner asked Talihina cooks to help students here with pies for the auction.
Last May, $500 Bigfoot scholarships were given to Clayton, Talihina and Smithville schools for scholarships. But, money raised at the Talihina event will all go to Talihina students, Hefner emphasized.
Bigfoot – or a close impersonator – appears in area parades and festivals.
Will Bigfoot appear in Talihina for the pie supper April 30?
No official word had been received at press time for this story.
Would Bigfoot approve of a pie supper in his name for Talihina students?
“I think it is wonderful the way we’ve put him to work for our kids,” Hefner said. “I met him up on Gobblers’ Knob and he said it is okay.”
Hefner lives by Gobbler's Knob in Honobia, where the Bigfoot Scholarship Fund began. They run the Bigfoot festival in October at Honobia and raise funds through Bigfoot t-shirt and coffee mug sales.
