7/23/13 - The Garden City community is getting ready to go hog wild to celebrate the return of a pig sculpture to its downtown. The Garden City Downtown Development Authority says a Friday celebration will mark the return of ''Willy the Pig" a year after his disappearance. The bright red, shiny sculpture was swiped in broad daylight in June of 2012 and damaged by vandals. However, some pieces were later found in Green Oak Township. The base was found in a field near Mallard Lake along with other evidence of the dismantled aluminum casting of the pig. Red fragments were also found along a bike trailhead at Silver Lake and McCabe Roads. The Garden City DDA commissioned the Canadian sculptor who made the original Willy for a replacement, making the second pig the property of the DDA. The centerpiece of Fridayâs activities is to be a 7pm unveiling of the newly casted sculpture. The previous one was valued at more than $6,000 and leased through the Sauve Foundation, whose founder and acting curator John Sauve lives in Brighton. (JM)
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