Duck Run on the Wabash August 8

By Brenda Taylor on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |

The fourth annual Duck Race on the Wabash will take place on August 8, 2009 at 1 p.m. at Kehoe Park in Bluffton, IN.

Family Centered Services is sponsoring the event. There will be free children’s games. Music and snacks during the event.

Prizes for the winning ducks are:

1st Prize - $1,000

2nd Prize – 2 Southwest Airline tickets

There will also be 28 additional prize packages.

Please call 260-358-1859 for more information.

The staff, board and volunteers at Family Centered Services, Inc. are working feverishly to get their ducks in a row, so to speak.

“We are so grateful that we were able to enlist 51 corporate sponsors and 73 merchants in Wells, Huntington and Adams County to donate prizes, especially in this economic environment”, Brenda Taylor, Development Director at FCS, noted.

FCS is still approximately $5,000 short of their $25,000 goal and we would like to encourage folks to get their tickets as soon as possible.

By purchasing a duck, participants have the chance to win the grand prize of $1,000, second prize this year includes 2 Southwest Airline Tickets (an $800 value sponsored by National Safe Place), or 28 other prizes valued at $50-$150 donated by Wells, Huntington & Adams County merchants.

A single duck is $5. A “Quack Sack” is $20 and includes 5 ducks and a free grocery tote, and a “Skipper’s Deck” will get you a free t-shirt and 12 ducks for only $50.

The duck race is scheduled for Saturday, August 8th from 1-3 at Kehoe Park in Bluffton. Free children’s games and snacks will be held from 1-1:45 p.m. with the duck drop kicking off the race at 2:00.

Stop by the FCS office at 123 S Marion St. from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday or call 260-824-8574 to buy your lucky duck. Duck tickets may also be purchased on-line at www.familycenteredservices.org.

All prize winners will be posted on the FCS website and will also be published in the Bluffton News-Banner and the Huntington Herald Press. You don’t have to be present to win.

The mission of Family Centered Services is to provide compassionate, respectful and innovative services that strengthen and support families and their communities. The agency provides parenting, mentoring and youth serving programs in both Wells and Huntington Counties and has been the Youth Service Bureau in Wells County since 2000. In 2008 FCS served more than 1200 families. The programs provided by our agency include: Healthy Families, Family Preservation, The Closet, Teen Court, Youth As Resources, Mentor Mom’s, Students Out of School, Families In Transition, Host Homes and Safe Place. FCS employs 30 professional staff who are trained and supervised to provide services in a culturally competent manner. The agency has diversified funding sources with a 2008 budget of $ 1,096,020.

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