This message is from: Ronni Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ducks? R.Taylor I do hope, and assume - that the ducks for the duck race are the cute yellow rubber kind! In case anyone is interested, in Illinois, near where I used to live, the Visiting Nurse Association for the county is/was supported by the annual duck race on the river. They sell rubber duckies with bar codes on the bottom (at Wendy's and Walmart, etc). Then on a certain day, they dump them from a couple of dump trucks into the river. The flotilla goes a mile down the river, and then in boomed into shore, becoming a single file, and the bar codes on the bottom of the ducks identify the winners. Several years ago, I think the "dump" was over 200,000 yellow rubber duckies. ($5 each, or 6 for $25 - at the time) They made a flotilla nearly the entire mile of river. National Geographic did an article on it in the 90's.
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