Scouts compete in duck derby

Posted: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:00 am | Updated: 2:30 pm, Wed Sep 16, 2009.

By Peter Adelsen Perspective staff reporter padelsen@kokomoperspective.com | 0 comments

Posted on September 16, 2009

Local Cub Scouts may have made history on Tuesday, twice.

Cub Scout packs 3539 and 3540 completed a duck derby for the first time ever in a rain gutter, according to Cub Scout leader Penny Yocum. The packs decorated the ducks and were eager for the duck derby, she said.

The boys blew through their individual PVC pipe into the water to make the ducks move from one end to the other in the rain gutter. Although it was just for fun, the top three in the competition received a flashlight and a certificate with their name and placing.

The first duck derby was at 3:00 p.m. at Bon Air Elementary School with Pack 3539 participating. The second duck derby was at 6:00 p.m. at First Congregational Church with Pack 3540.

"We thought we would try to see what it was like," Yocum said. "We were the first pack to do it. In the past, boats raced through the gutters."

Yocum said that they try to do many extra things than other packs have done and it brings boys into scouting.

The boys are between first and fifth grades and, for many, they are new to scouting, she said.

"They are learning to work as a team," she said.

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