{"id":357242,"date":"2026-06-12T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:04:14","slug":"rubber-ducky-derby-grosses-11-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357242\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Ducky Derby grosses $11.5K\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RubberDuckyDerbyW.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"436\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RubberDuckyDerbyW.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"RubberDuckyDerbyW\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Seal Beach Lions Club held its Ducky Derby at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 6. This year\u2019s event was dedicated to the memory of Lion Derek Moore who started the derby. Rubber Ducky winners: First place: #529 Fleche Masse, $2,000; second place: #033 Brenda Thomason, $1,000, third place: #398 Heather Grethe, $500.\u00a0 According to John Schroeder of the Lions Club, there were $11,580 in gross sales (of the rubber duckies). \u201cThe net proceeds went to the general lions charities benefitting various entities in Seal Beach,\u201d Schroeder wrote. Lifeguards are seen dumping the rubber duckies off the pier. The first three to reach shore were declared the winners. Photo by Charles M. Kelly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalinaexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OCCN-122018_300x250.gif\"\/><\/a>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                        Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnews.org\/special-olympics-torch-run-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Special Olympics Torch Run 2026<\/a>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnews.org\/alan-moskal-named-publisher-of-the-sun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Moskal named publisher of the Sun<\/a>                                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The Seal Beach Lions Club held its Ducky Derby at 1 p.m. on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-357242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}