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In 1979, the Newport Developmental Center for Children faced a crisis because of federal and state budget cuts. A group of citizens decided to hold a pig cooking contest to try to keep the center operating. They got twenty-five sponsors, twenty-five cooks, and twenty-five pigs, and hoped to sell 2,500 plates of barbeque. Days before the event, they realized they'd sold too many tickets and had to scramble to get seventeen more pigs, cooks, and sponsors.
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