Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 | 4:09 p.m.
Two-thousand ducks will race down a river at Cascata Golf Club on Sept. 13.
Thankfully for groundskeepers, they won't be the quacking, molting kind, but the plastic, yellow, bathtub variety.
Boulder City Sunrise Rotary is using the ducks and some flying golf balls for its Kenducky Derby, a fundraiser to pay for the $7,500 outdoor sculpture purchased this summer for the city.
Large hats and mint juleps will abound while the numbered ducks, rented from Breckenridge, Colo., float from a stream by the first hole down to the restaurant, Rotarian Doug Scheppmann said.
The Rotary last month bought bronze eagle sculpture "The Relationship," voters' choice winner of the Public Art Scape Project, so it can permanently stay at the corner of Nevada Way and Arizona Street, he said.
Now to pay it off, the club invites anyone to Harrah's golf course to watch 1,000 golf balls dropped from a helicopter and two duck races.
Cash and other prizes are awarded to the owner of the golf ball landing closest to a hole and to the purchasers of the duck that makes it to the finish line first.
Scheppmann said no more than 400 people can attend the event.
Kenducky Derby
WHEN: Sept. 13 — golf ball drop at 1:30 p.m., corporate duck race at 2:15 p.m., Kenducky Derby at 2:45 p.m.
WHERE: Cascata Golf Club, 1 Cascata Drive, Boulder City, off the U.S. 95 Laughlin exit
COST: $150 package to attend, $5 a golf ball, $100 corporate duck, $10 individual duck
INFO: Space is limited. Call Doug Scheppmann, 373-3745
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