Pink Duck Derby

Photos by Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise

Numbered ducks wait to swim during the first annual Pink Duck Derby at Paradise Water Park near Lumberton on Saturday, October 6, 2007.


Margai Bass of Kountze (right) counts ducks before the first annual Pink Duck Derby at Paradise Water Park. The event was sponsored by the Relay for Life of Hardin and South Jasper Counties and benefits the local American Cancer Society.


Cancer awareness brochures were available during the first annual Pink Duck Derby at Paradise Water Park. More than 700 ducks were sold with prizes awarded to owners of the first three numbered ducks to cross the finish line.


Volunteers release ducks during the first annual Pink Duck Derby at Paradise Water Park.


Rhonda Brown of Buna collects ducks after the first annual Pink Duck Derby at Paradise Water Park.