A flotilla of pink, blue and yellow plastic ducks invaded Paint Creek Saturday during the annual Youth Assistance Duck Race held in downtown Lake Orion’s Children’s Park.
The fund-raiser, in which participants bought numbered toy ducks for $5 each, generated $2,018 for Oxford-Addison Youth Assistance and $2,293 for Orion Area Youth Assistance. A total of 1,362 ducks were sold.
Oxford resident Kurt Godfryd’s duck was the first to cross the finish line, earning him the top prize of $999. Peggy Chisholm, of Dryden took second place and won an Apple iPod. The third place prize of $200 went to Sam Kitchen, of Victor, Idaho.
Oxford resident Lisa Cronin won a gift basket for her duck’s fourth place finish. ? Editor C.J. Carnacchio