Buffalo Grove Rotary Seeks Partners, Participants for Annual 'Duck Race'

The Rotary Club of Buffalo Grove’s is seeking both sponsors and those who would like to enter ducks in the exciting annual Duck Race, to be held on a new date at Buffalo Grove Days’ new location this year at Mike Rylko Park, 801 McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove.

The race will kick off at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 4, and be located between the carnival and arts and crafts area. The race course itself has been enlarged and improved and will create an extra-exciting competition for ducks vying to place within the top four to win cash prizes of $1,500, $500, $250 and 10, $100 winners. Select participants will receive $5 gift cards from Culver's of Buffalo Grove.

“We are looking forward to putting a new spin on this popular fundraiser for the Buffalo Grove Rotary; we expect that the brand new location and day it will be held on will create more excitement and raise more money for the causes we support as an organization,” said Bill Donahue, the Duck Race committee chair.

Area businesses are invited to sponsor the Duck Race to build their brand in the greater Buffalo Grove community. For more information, please click here for more information or email duckrace@BGRotary.org.

Ducks can be purchased online. One Lucky Duck is $5, a Quack Pack (six ducks) are $25 and a Flock of ducks can be purchased for $100.

This yearly fundraiser raises money for literacy programs in Buffalo Grove area elementary schools, local food bank assistance through the Kingwood United Methodist Church, the Rotary Village Green Concert Series, holiday food baskets, in addition to international efforts to eradicate polio and promote clean water initiatives as well as a number of other programs both local and international.

To learn more about the Buffalo Grove Rotary, visit the website at http://www.bgrotary.org/ or come as a guest to the weekly meetings on Thursdays at Lou Malnati's, 85 S. Buffalo Grove Road in Buffalo Grove from 12:15 p.m. until 1:30 p.m.