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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021
N VOLUME 62 ISSUE 40
NOW SERVING EVERGREEN, CONIFER, BAILEY AND PINE
A flood of funny fowl
75 CENTS
Annual Dam Ducky Derby is exciting time for all ages BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
For children at the Dam Ducky Derby, it’s difficult to tell which is more entertaining: the 5,500 ducks that fall from above the Evergreen dam into Bear Creek or the fire engine that drops the ducks or the chilly water that they can wade in before the festivities begin. Saturday’s 12th annual derby, which brought thousands to downtown Evergreen, did not disappoint. Volunteers sold the final ducks, while vendors were available in both the downtown and Cactus Jack’s parking lots. Families gathered below the dam and on the walkways, waiting for the five-second freefall when the ducks make their way to the water. Children and dogs played in Bear Creek below the dam as Hunter Slife with Slife’s Devil Dogs, who emceed the event, got the crowd fired up and led the countdown before firefighters on Evergreen Fire/Rescue’s ladder truck let the yellow quackers loose. With the ducks in the creek, the duck wranglers used large poles to help them to the finish line just before Highland Haven Creekside Inn on the east end of downtown. The top and last-place finishers win awards. Volunteers Kathy Madison and Thousands of rubber ducks slip from the net above Bear Creek for the Dam Ducky Derby.
SEE DUCKS, P10 PHOTO BY SARA HERTWIG
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Obits Conifer Chamber
2 Meow Elk 11 Morrison PD
4 Jr. Olympics 13 EAPL Past
7 Opinion 14 Back to School
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