High school alumni groups holding event

The Alumni Associations of Riverside and Harvey High Schools are inviting the public to the Hardy Animal Nutrition Grand Riv-Har Duck Race at the Helen Hazen Wyman Park off Route 86 11 a.m. to noon, Sept. 9.

This is the 16th annual race and is a joint effort of alumni and friends of the two schools to raise money to fund annual college scholarships, programs, projects and activities for the associations and the schools.

Rubber ducks will be launched into the creek to float their way to a finish line. Each duck is imprinted with a number corresponding to the numbers on tickets now being sold for $5 each. The first duck to reach the finish line will win $500 for the lucky ticket holder. Additional prizes will be awarded to other frontrunning ducks.

Local businesses join the effort by becoming sponsors for the race. Sponsors receive recognition in the Harvey/Riverside Alumni Booth at the Painesville Party-in-the-Park, in the Harvey/Riverside Alumni booth at A Taste of Painesville, on the Harvey Alumni webpage www.harveylumni.com, on the Riverside Alumni webpage www.riversidealumni.com, on the Painesville City educational access television stations, on the Harvey Alumni Association Facebook page and group and in the football program for the annual Harvey/Riverside “battle of Painesville’.

Tickets are available by contacting Riverside’s Don Pomfrey at 440-352-8443 or Harvey’s Ron Balogh at 440-352-1339.