| The Great Eugene Duck Race is a fund-raising effort to support protective services for children and youth. A local company dumps thousands of yellow bathtub duckies into the Willamette River upstream a ways, a number of the duckies containing prize slips within them. Prizes include a car, a hot-tub installation, a shopping spree, and a number of other valuable prizes... |
Anyone who captures a duckie with a prize slip inside gets to claim the prize after the race in a ceremony at Alton Baker Park on the Willamette River. Included in the festivities of the actual race itself is a program of entertainment, food, and some exotic and not so exotic animals and critters for the children and adults to hold and touch, except for the rattle snake... |
