Duck Pluck Festival raises more than $18,000 for Natomas schools

--- Published on July 25th 2014 ---
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The fifth annual Natomas Duck Pluck Festival raised $18,515 to be divided among schools within the boundaries of the Natomas Unified School District.

The Duck Pluck Festival typically is the largest single fundraiser of the nonprofit Natomas Schools Foundation, which raises money to benefit charter and non-charter schools that work together in planning the event. This year’s celebration was held May 3 beside Inderkum High School.

The highlight of each Duck Pluck Festival is a raffle in which participants buy $100 tickets for the chance to win a $10,000 grand prize. Four people teamed to buy this year’s winning ticket: Rachel Dennis, Janelle Arsick, Erin Morton and Elena Murray  from Heron School.

Of the $18,515 in festival proceeds generated for Natomas schools, campuses will receive varying amounts based on the number of tickets sold for the Duck Pluck raffle and from revenue generated at game booths operated by school volunteers.

During a ceremony at this year's festival, the Natomas Schools Foundation awarded $5,000 in college scholarships to seven high school students. Three of the scholarships were for $1,000 apiece, four were for $500 apiece.

Scholarship winners were Sharon Ng and Vanessa Smith of Inderkum High School; Ashley Manlapaz-Pineda and Jazmene Foster of Natomas High School; Lauren Campbell of Natomas Charter High School; and Sierra Dwyer-Voss  and Samantha Masters of NP3 High School.