Rotary kicks off Duck Derby sales

The Graham Rotary Club kicked off their fundraising efforts last Wednesday for the second Duck Derby event and over 1,300 ducks had already been sold as of Monday morning.

The first Duck Derby event was held last year and was a huge success for the organization with 9,000 rubber ducks sold almost doubling the organization’s original sales goal of 5,000 ducks. Graham Rotary Club President Pam Scott, said last year’s success could be attributed to being a new event, and this year the club can reference the event to make changes.

“We are not quite so green this year,” she said. “It is our second year…last year we didn’t really have much to fall back on from a previous year being our inaugural event, so we have been able to tweak it some and look back wonder if we have tweaked it right, and things you have done have worked, so there is a little more confidence going in a second year.”

The event will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 27 at the Fireman’s Park duck pond. Ducks can be purchased online at duckrace.com/Graham/, for $5 for one, $25 for six, $50 for 12 and $100 for 24.

For the rest of the story see the Wednesday, March 6 edition of The Graham Leader.