Everything’s ducky

People race cars, horses, greyhounds. Now ducks! Rubber ducks can be “adopted’’ to benefit Child Life Services Program at UMass Memorial Medical Center. The faux fowl will then be dropped into the Grist Mill stream at the Wayside Inn for a gala duck derby, and first- and second-place winners will claim their glory and cash prizes. Noon. Grist Mill at Wayside Inn, Sudbury, off Route 20. Sponsored by Bullfinchs Restaurant. Duck adoptions can be made by calling 978-443-4094. LUCY BARBER