Greetings!

Here is a very fun Duck Derby story.  One year, while we were in the trailer with the winning ducks - Bill Thorp was taking the ducks out of the tube one by one. It was an exciting moment as he read the bar codes and Cynthia (now President Cynthia) looked them up and read off the winning names.  (You see, the way this works - you adopt a duck and your adoption papers have a number code.  Because this is actually a lottery, those numbers can't be the same as the ones on the duckies - so a bar code is issued and the morning of the race the numbers and codes are scrambled so even if you wanted to put "your" barcode on a duckie - you could not.)  Anyway - after the first winning ducks were pulled - Bill reached in and the next winner was Steve Welch.  Yay for Steve.  He's a great supporter of Rotary and we were happy with the win! The next duckie was pulled out of the tube and Bill read off the code and Cynthia said - "you aren't going to believe this!"  It was Dawn Welch. (She is also a great supporter of Rotary and is in the "Thursday" club).   What are the odds.  Dawn and Steve are in different Rotary clubs. They each purchased a Super Quack Pack on different dates.  Yet, their duckies somehow found each other in the river.  Now, that's soul mates for you.  And to top it all off, they remained generous as one of the prizes was a television and they further donated it to The Asante Family House.  

If you have a fun story to tell - send it to me.  I like publishing fun stories.

Cheers!

Hyla

P.S.  Don't forget to adopt ducks!