Tekoa holds off on duck race after gambling panel report

The Slippery Gulch Days duck race in Tekoa is on hold for the festival’s 90th year next month after a visit from the State Gambling commission. The change comes after a process started just before last year’s Slippery Gulch Days, held every year on the third weekend in June.

After the gambling commission received two anonymous complaints, Special Agent Mike Fitzpatrick came to town to take a look.

Because both the raffle and duck race are a type of gambling – people buying tickets to win in the raffle and buying numbered ducks to see which one wins the race for a prize in Hangman Creek – proto...