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Galesburg Gets All "Quacked" Up
Officials say the Galesburg community clearly understands just how important their local schools are.

The annual "Rubber Duck Race" held by the Galesburg Public Schools Foundation set another record -- with over 82-hundred ducks sold or "adopted" prior to the start of Sunday's race at Lake Storey.

That will result in about 50-thousand dollars that will go back into District-205 schools.

Foundation president Tom Wallace tells WGIL given the restraints on school district budgets thanks to things like the state budget mess, he's appreciative for all the public's support.

"Everybody is very sympathetic to our school systems, and understands that there's only so many tax dollars to go around," he says. "But I really say that Galesburg has always been a community in my view that has cared very much about their children and their youth in their community and I've always supported them in everything we do, whether it be sports or academics."

Wallace says there hasn't been much talk yet, but the Foundation would at some point like to try and fund some new -- and maybe even big -- projects.

The Foundation, by the way, will be honored at Monday's Galesburg School Board meeting.

And, this year's race had some irony. A grocery store won a gift certificate to another local grocery store. And an autobody shop won a car wash and wax, at another autobody shop.
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