(by permission of Evening Rotary Club)
Well, kinda, sorta. I got to make the Duck Derby Check for the Rotary! I was very proud to be chosen to produce the over-sized ceremonial award check for the Greenville Evening Rotary Club’s annual Duck Derby awards ceremony.
The Rotary Club of Greenville Evening is a service organization of local business men and women. Each year (for 12 years now!), here in Greenville, they hold the Reedy River Duck Derby as their primary community service project. The Rotarians’ motto is “Service above Self”, and they develop community service projects to address many critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy and violence.
If you haven’t been to the Rotary’s Duck Derby, held this year on May 7th, you are missing a treat – correction, you missed a treat! But there is next year. Each year thousands of little yellow ducks plummet down the waterfall in Falls Park of Downtown Greenville and race to the finish line – sort of – they float at the whim of the current, but that’s okay, we’ll call it a race! Prizes are awarded for each duck that is captured in the right place. Each little guy is numbered with your donation number in order to identify the winners.
The generosity of many local sponsors providing cash, prizes and service donations make the Annual Reedy River Duck Derby possible. The Grand Prize this year was sponsored by Publix. It was a year’s supply of groceries. Not too shabby – especially since eating is a pretty popular thing to do! The Second Prize was a children’s playhouse donated by Home Depot and Habitat for Humanity. And there were lots of other prizes and activities at Falls Park for the entire day.
Proceeds from the Duck Derby “Quack Packs” and other ticket sales benefited the Mauldin Miracle League (MML), Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (GAIHN), EarlyAct FirstKnight, Polio Plus, Partners in Agriculture, and other local charitable organizations.
Now back to the check. 
We made the check by using a large piece of sign quality corrugated plastic and printed a covering piece of vinyl. The check could also have been made from PVC foam board which is more rigid than the lighter weight plastic material. And we don’t just do checks. We have also printed some images and mounted them like these below onto PVC foam board or aluminum laminate:
FTL Sunburst by Kevin Ruck of Ruck Photography – all rights reserved
A Greenville Park by Marly Richards – all rights reserved
So if you need a gigantic, mega-large check to display your charity’s donations and wish to have one designed and made, give us a call! But don’t try to cash one!
And if you just want a poster or a photo mounted in large format – we do that too!
by Tom Edwards, Liberty Signs, tom@liberty-signs.com or call 864 417 1787.