Family Day to highlight Rio Grande Founders' Day weekend
The University of Rio Grande will host Family Day sponsored by Ohio Valley Bank Friday as part of its weekend Founders' Day celebration.
Activities will kick off with the Rio Grande Special Skills Track Invitational, featuring special needs students from throughout the area competing in various events, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Stockmeister Track & Field Complex.
Campus Tours are also available at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the Davis Center across from Wood Hall, while the Founders' Day Celebration — featuring birthday cake and a performance by Rio's own Grand Chorale, is slated for noon at the Alumni Memorial Bell Tower.
Food trucks from the area will be located between Wood Hall and the Lyne Center from 3-7 p.m. and a Founders' Day Scavenger Hunt, which will start at the Lyne Center entrance, gets underway at 4:30 p.m.
Hay Wagon rides, sponsored by Bob Evans Farms, are available from 5-7 p.m. for those attendees who are planning to park at the Shelter House, while at Social Hour sponsored by R&C Packing will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Lynce Center Hill.
A Founders' Day Duck Drop to benefit Rio students is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Rio Grande Rugby's Red Valley Pitch and will be followed by a Farm to Fork Dinner at 7 p.m.
Each $10 duck purchased online gives you an entry to win the $250 grand prize and students with a current RIO ID can buy their ducks for just $5 at the Office of Institutional Advancement, with cash or Venmo accepted.
A total of 1,000 ducks will be dropped by helicopter onto the field, with the first 100 people to find their duck receiving a Rio family T-shirt, which are being sponsored by ARCHON alumni, Rio’s Office of Alumni Relations, Robin Fowler State Farm, and Ohio Valley Bank. You do not have to be present to win.
The duck drop will help raise $10,000 that will help Rio students along their educational journey.
The dinner, which is sold out, is a fundraising event hosted by the Office of Institutional Advancement to support the Changing Tomorrows Fund.
Diners will enjoy a pairings dinner with Chef Austin Cole. The menu will be comprised of completely local ingredients.
The weekend schedule was also to include a men's and women's soccer doubleheader on Friday afternoon between the RedStorm and Washington Adventist University, but both matches have now been canceled.
Those looking to take in a live athletic event can check out the Rio Grande men's rugby team, which will open the home portion of its schedule against the University of Tennessee on Saturday, at noon, at Red Valley Pitch.
Admission is free.
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