11,000 rubber ducks raced the Brazos for free books in Waco
The Great Waco Duck Race supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Waco, which mails a free book each month to more than 2,000 McLennan County children.
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Eleven thousand rubber ducks went down the Brazos River in the Great Waco Duck Race. The race raises money for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Waco, which already mails one free book a month to more than 2,000 children in McLennan County.
The ducks are the fundraiser. The books are what the library sends home, a new one each month, for those children.
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