Tickets now on sale for Winslow’s 30th Annual Duck Derby for 2020

The annual Duck Derby, a popular fund-raising event sponsored by Winslow Therapeutic Center, will take place, rain or shine, on Sunday, May 17.

Tickets are now on sale for popular race and proceeds will be divided equally between Winslow and other not-for-profit organizations that help market the tickets. Organizations and clubs are invited to participate.

Winslow Therapeutic Center is a not-for-profit organization offering therapeutic horseback riding healing programs for children and adults.

Winslow services riders from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and is a premiere accredited center by PATH International. (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International).

The back story

Anyone new to this area may wonder what the “Duck Derby” is all about.

On the day of the race hundreds of adults and children will be crowding the bridges or running along the banks of Wawayanda Creek in the downtown area of the Village of Warwick. Most will have “adopted” one or more of thousands of plastic ducks, each bearing the number that corresponds with the $5 ticket they purchased.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. volunteers will release all the ducks from the South Street Bridge, the starting line of the race.

The ducks will then race by floating down Wawayanda Creek to the nearby finish line just beyond the Main Street Bridge.

Essentials

There are seven valuable prizes including $1,000 cash. .

Tickets are available at Winslow, 1433 Route 17A in Warwick and at Frazzleberries, Halligan’s, Newhard’s, Pecks Wine & Spirits, Pennings Farm Market, Yesterdays and the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce caboose.

There are also approximately 20 other organizations, clubs and agencies selling tickets.

For additional information about the Duck Derby or Winslow Therapeutic Center, call 986-6686 or visit www.winslow.org.

- Roger Gavan

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PIC: One photo and caption uploaded to MyCapture.

The Winslow Duck, aka Stacy Lenz, atop “Buddy.”