Leah Leach

2 weeks ago | peninsuladailynews.com | Leah Leach

PORT ANGELES — Colleen Williams visited Safeway to buy broccoli and walked out with a duck ticket that won her a 2025 Toyota Corolla. Williams’ winning duck was plucked from a truck parked on City Pier in Port Angeles during the record-breaking 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby on Sunday. She won the top prize, provided by Wilder Toyota, out of 36 prizes awarded at the event sponsored by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. “I don’t know what I will do with the car,” Williams said.

3 weeks ago | peninsuladailynews.com | Leah Leach

Volunteer Pam Scott dresses the part as she sells ducks for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby at the Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market on Saturday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News) By Leah Leach For Peninsula Daily NewsFriday, May 16, 2025 1:30amNewsClallam County PORT ANGELES — Let us introduce you to the woman in the duck suit.

3 weeks ago | peninsuladailynews.com | Leah Leach

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s nursing and medical assisting program students have been selling entries into the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby in between classes, working, studying and taking care of their families. While supporting the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, which hosts the annual derby, the students also are working for themselves in two ways. All proceeds for this year’s derby will go to a medical program scholarship fund for local residents.

1 month ago | peninsuladailynews.com | Leah Leach

PORT ANGELES — This year, she’s going to break the record. Gail Ralston is determined to beat the Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby lifetime record for sales that has been unchallenged since the death of Bill Littlejohn of Sequim in 2019. Littlejohn’s record is 37,748. Ralston’s total at this point is 35,529. “I hate to do this to this wonderful man, but I am going to pass him,” Ralston said. She has competition.

Mar 4, 2025 | peninsuladailynews.com | Leah Leach

PORT ANGELES — The 18th annual Red, Set Go! Heart Luncheon netted a record-breaking $266,000 to benefit the Olympic Medical Center Heart Center in Sequim. Friday’s luncheon, produced by the OMC Foundation and presented by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, also drew the most participants in its history, with 390 people attending. A major donor to the event was George Brown, a longtime OMC donor who contributed $100,000 to the cause of upgrading cardiovascular ultrasound equipment.