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July 8, 2021
The rain that hit on Wednesday pushed their opening to Thursday.
Robert Duck brought his ducks all the way from New Mexico.
He says it’s simple to duck race, and there are tricks you can use to make the ducks go faster.
Crowd volunteers hold their own duck and release them in four lanes to start the race.
The first duck cross the finish line wins.
One duck race winner, Kelsey Conley, says she walked away with a new perspective of the animal.
“Just thinking that you got to race it. I just never thought that ducks were racing animals,” says Conley. “I just kind of did what he said and like splashed water on him and he just went.”
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July 7, 2021
National Cherry Festival organizers were happy to hear the Northern Michigan cherry crop cooperated this year.
Typically the sweet cherry crops aren’t ready to be picked until the end of July, but this year farmers were able to get out and pick early.
“I think people are surprised that they’re local cherries. We’ve had to reiterate to people that they are right here from Michigan,” says Steve Rubinus.
Rubinus has been selling cherries for Edmondson Orchard all week at the National Cherry Festival.
He says it isn’t often that the sweet cherry crop is ready this early, but their crews have been out the last week picking cherries from trees.
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July 7, 2021
People were out on Wednesday taking part in the Nation Cherry Festival Annual Cornhole Tournament.
The competition started and noon and lasted until 6 p.m.
This year, they had about 128 teams sign up to play.
One team says it was their first year in the tournament.
They say they had the chance to play against veteran players, and were welcomed right into the Cornhole Community.
Kenny Simmons was on that rookie team.
“It doesn’t really make it feel like a contest,” said Simmons. “So, obviously Cherry Festival is a good family event so everyone’s kind of got their families out here anyways. So it’s nice to just have the friends and enjoy.”
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