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Hour 11th Duck Race

The Annual Benefit for K.C. Geiger Park
Celebrity Regatta 5:00 p.m.
Duck Race at 6:00 p.m. ~ SummerFest Sunday, August 10, 2003
On the River in Memorial Park, St. Marys, Ohio

The Theme for This Year's Race is "Time."
All Events are Guaranteed to be Conducted in Four Dimensions!
Double Your Money Back if Your Duck:

  • Finishes Before it Starts;
  • Vanishes into a Previously Unknown Space-Time Anomaly;
  • Advertantly or Inadvertantly Disproves Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle;
  • Wins;
  • or any combination of the above.

To claim money-back guarantee contestant waives all rights to prizes. Rift in the continuum must occur during the apparent conducting of the Race. Contestant agrees to assume burden of proof.

First Place Prize:

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'95 Isuzu Rodeo SUV
4-Door ~ Auto ~ Air ~ V6 ~ CD Changer
First Place Prize Sponsored by Larry Schaaf Auto Sales

DUCK RACE Ticket Information:


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FIVE BUCKS EACH.

or CLICK HERE to email the Duck Race Committee.

Aug. 7-10, tickets will be sold at the St. Marys SummerFest
in the bright yellow Duck Booth in Memorial Park.

QUACK! (Good Luck!)
Buy a Duck?
Buy a Duck!

Duck Race Records Set in 2002:

120 Prizes.

Our Annual Goal is to improve on last year's numbers.

Duck Race Records Set in 2000:

$10,962 in Ca$h & Prizes.

Our Annual Goal is to improve on last year's numbers.

Duck Race Records Set in 1999:

2238 Tickets Sold. ~ 107 Prizes ~ $10,759 in Ca$h & Prizes. ~ $11,190 for K.C. Geiger Park.

Our Annual Goal is to improve on last year's numbers.

Duck Race Records Set in 1998:

2081 Tickets Sold. ~ 42 Prizes ~ $8383 in Ca$h & Prizes. ~ $10,405 for K.C. Geiger Park.

Our Annual Goal is to improve on last year's numbers.

What is a DUCK RACE?


(You could read the Rules, but I'm warning you...)
At 6:00 p.m. sharp the gate is raised... and they're off!
Duck Race Start Hundreds of thousands - well, hundreds, anyway (1,943 in 2002) - of numbered rubber ducks (one for each $5 ticket sold) are released on the St. Marys River as the nearby Memorial Park Clock Bell Tower strikes 6 o'clock. The unpredictable current carries the yellow rubber ducks 1/2 a furlong - about 120 yards - downstream at speeds measured in the tenths of a mile/hour.

The ducks float on the lazy current of the St. Marys River.
Hundreds of thousands - well, thousands, anyway (no kidding) - of race fans come to the riverbank to watch the spectacle. Throwing stuff at the ducks or at the DUCK RACE officials in the water is considered bad form, and will draw stern rebukes from the knowledgeable fans (and especially from the DUCK RACE officials). Duck Race

The Official Duck Race Officials await the winners...
Duck Race Finish The ducks approach the finish line to qualify for prizes (more than $10,000 in cash and merchandise again in 2002). DUCK RACE officials in the yellow shirts and hats place the winners into the chute immediately.
Memorial Park Clock Tower, St. Marys, Ohio
The annual DUCK RACE takes place on Sunday during the St. Marys SummerFest, the second weekend of August each year. All proceeds benefit K.C. Geiger Park, a beautiful local public facility. The ten DUCK RACEs run to date have generated more than $75,000 for the K.C. Geiger Park Improvement Committee, a private, non-profit organization. Your donations, including the purchase of DUCK RACE tickets, are tax-deductible. All funds are administered through the St. Marys Community Foundation.

1997 was the first year for the DUCK RACE to be on the internet. Learn more DR trivia in the Duck Race Archives.

What's a "Lucky Duck?"

Corporate sponsors of specially colored ducks donate $20, $50, $100 or $200 cash prizes. The next numbered duck to follow a "Lucky Duck" across the finish line wins the prize donated by that "Lucky Duck's" sponsor.

What's the "Lame Duck Award?"

The K.C. Geiger Park Improvement Committee sponsors one prize in each year's Duck Race, the Lame Duck Award. The Race Entrant which finishes dead last at the finish line (the "Lame Duck") wins $100 in cash for its owner, just because.
 

The Annual K.C. Geiger Park Improvement Committee St. Marys River SummerFest Duck Race is a fund-raising activity of (surprise!) the K.C. Geiger Park Improvement Committee, which is a non-profit organization.
All proceeds from this EVENT and other Committee functions are administered through the St. Marys Community Foundation.
All donations are tax-deductible.

Race Entrant Owner chances of winning depends on how many prizes are donated and how many tickets are sold. EVENT Officials are not required by law to inform the public that buying twice as many tickets doubles the chances of winning.

Why a Duck?

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