The annual Rubber Ducky Festival is kicking off early this year with a rubber duck adoption drive that will quality early adopters for an additional prize, provided by the SCV Rotary Club.

Anybody who adopts a duck before Sept. 1 will receive 10 raffle tickets towards a Rotary Barbeque for thirty people.

The barbecue can be at any location the winner decides with the SCV, Acton or Agua Dulce areas. The SCV Rotary will bring a barbeque trailer, cook, and serve choice of tri-tip, chicken, or sausages, baked beans, and corn on the cob, along with cooks, food-line servers, paper plates, plastic silverware, napkins, biscuits, coleslaw butter, salt, pepper, and barbecue sauce

The Rubber Ducky Festival, put on every year by the Samuel Dixon Family Health Center, will take place this year on Saturday, Oct.1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bridgeport Park in Valencia

The festival will also have cash prizes for winners of a contest to float rubber ducks downriver.

The grand prize is $2500. Second prize is $1500, and third prize is $500.

Those interested can adopt their duck early here.