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  • 1 week ago | peninsuladailynews.com | Leah Leach

    Tickets available for purchase through this weekend By Leah Leach For Peninsula Daily NewsTuesday, June 17, 2025 1:30amEntertainmentClallam County Cancan dancers such as these will perform at Hog Wild Goes to Moulin Rouge on June 28 at Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles. (EnJoy) PORT ANGELES — Cancan dancers and acrobats will kick off the Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s 12th annual Hog Wild on June 28.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 2 months 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.

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