Another win-win for the Rotary Club of Guelph Wellington.
The 36th annual rubber duck race helped to raise $50,000 for the Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington and its efforts to provide food security to children in the community.
“We know that this fantastic food program currently supports about 500 local kids with food bags for weekends and grocery gift cards for their families during school holidays,” Martin Van Dam, the president of the Rotary Club of Guelph Wellington, said in a news release.
“And we’ve learned that another 200 local kids need this support. We love this particular program because it was actually started six years ago by the four Rotary Clubs of Guelph working together, so it is close to our hearts, and we are determined to keep on helping to eliminate the food insecurity in our community.”
About $21,000 in prizes were given out, and the Guelph Minor Hockey Association helped to raise $24,000 for selling 5,000 duck tickets.
The annual Got Duck fundraiser saw over 6,100 rubber ducks hit the water at Riverside Park as part of the Rotary Ribfest event last month, as onlookers held hope their duck would cross the line first.
The group calls the result “astonishing,” considering the club is made up of nine members.
