Race official Susie Farmer, below, calls out the top-finishing ducky numbers to scorekeepers nearby as they reach her while duck wranglers Carol Jackson (duck umbrella) and Lani Emrich, right, corral stragglers and near escapees during another chapter in Hinton’s Great Rubber Ducky Race Sunday afternoon next to the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
HINTON, W.Va. – A flock of ducks were flung from the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge here Sunday.
Down they came, landing in the New River, floating off toward an L-shaped finish line.
The ducks were about 3 inches tall, yellow and plastic. For more than two decades, the dropping of plastic duckies has capped the West Virginia State Water Festival, a week-long celebration of how and what the state’s waterways are used for…