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The Lucky Ducky Race and Community Celebration

August 24, 2025

Riverside Park

On Sunday, August 24, 2025 from 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Riverside Park, creatively decorated ducks will once again race down the Arkansas River to cheering spectators. Local nonprofits will line the sidewalks with giveaways and fun activities for the kiddos. Public Fun Races give community members the opportunity to buy a ticket on the spot to sponsor a duck in a 10-duck race.

Sponsor your duck today by completing the application form.

2024 Platinum Ducks

Congratulations to This Year's Scholarship Recipients!

 

Congratulations to the entire 2025 Salida High School graduating class!  This year, Salida Sunrise Rotary Club was proud to be one of the many generous community organizations who attended the Salida High School Scholarship Awards Night.

Our organization received the most applications in the history of our scholarship program, and we were blown away by the impressive credentials of each of the applicants. We select scholarship recipients based on work experience in the community, family or personal hardship, academics, class rank, and extracurricular activities.

This year, we were pleased to award a total of $28,000 to 11 graduating seniors and 5 former SHS students continuing their college educations. We would like to recognize this year’s scholarship recipients. High school seniors: Luke Clanton, Delia Dimino, Hudson Fisher, Brody Hudson, Kyndra Johnson, Cedar "CeCe" Lengerich, Macy Matthews, Emerson Reed, Axel Sather, Raeann Shively, and Ezekiel Wilcox.  College students: Cooper Hodge, Radana Jo Myers, Megan Rhude, Maya Vallevona, and Ethan NeJame Zeiset.

Salida Sunrise Rotary raises funds for scholarships in part through the Chaffee Home & Garden Show, Holiday Park and the annual Community Celebration & Lucky Ducky Race.  We were pleased to welcome last year’s race-winning Platinum sponsors to help present their scholarships at Awards Night: The Mountain Mail, Blue Federal Credit Union, and Peak to Peak Pickleball Club. We are continually grateful for the community support we receive through Lucky Ducky sponsorships from businesses and individuals each year. Through their generosity, our community collectively helps send deserving SSR scholarship recipients off to college on better financial footing.

The Salida Sunrise Rotary Club would like to invite you to consider sponsoring a duck at this year’s Lucky Ducky Race, which will be held in Riverside Park on Sunday, August 24 th , 2025. For more information, please visit our website at: salidasunriserotary.com or email us at ssrluckyduckyrace@gmail.com.

Chaffee County Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program

Celebrates 10 years! 

Co-Chairmen Jane Vandewalle and Becky Leonard announce the plans for celebrating Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program being in Chaffee County for 10 years since the launch of this program  in March of 2015!  Wow!!

Becky added, "We have partnered with the two libraries to host a celebration as part of a regularly-scheduled Storytime event.  This is how we launched the program as well as how we handled earlier local DPIL celebrations."
  • Salida Regional Library 's event will be Wednesday, February 26th, from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at their Storytime (their audience is children ages 0 to 5).  
  • Buena Vista Public Library's event will be Friday, February 28th, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at their Storytime (their audience is children ages 0 to 6).  
Press Releases are being submitted to The Mountain Mail, The Chaffee County Times, and Ark Valley Voice, and the information is being shared with the Heart of the Rockies Radio.  
 
This is truly an amazing program for the children of Chaffee County and one we all should celebrate!
Club Information
Join us any Wednesday!

Service Above Self

We meet In Person & Online
Wednesdays at 7:30 AM
Robin's In Salida Restaurant
8046 US Highway 50
Salida, CO 81201
United States of America
Club meetings may also be held via Zoom. For more information, please contact the Club Administrator
Speakers
Jon Terbush, Executive Director
Jul 16, 2025 7:30 AM
Salida Mountain Trails
Jill Simonson, Supervisors
Jul 23, 2025 7:30 AM
Adult Protective Services, Chaffee County Dept of Human Services
Board Meeting
Jul 30, 2025 7:30 AM
Quarterly Board Meeting
Cory Scheffel, Longfellow Elementary Principal
Aug 06, 2025 7:30 AM
Getting Ready for a new school year!
Read McCulloch, Executive Director
Aug 13, 2025 7:30 AM
Chaffee County Trust
Jim Smith, Retired Hallmark Artist
Aug 20, 2025 7:30 AM
The Adventures of being a Commercial Artist
Cheryl Brown-Kovacic
Aug 27, 2025 7:30 AM
Places to Age
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