Cross Timbers Rotary event highlights River Walk’s festival potential

The rubber ducks were back at the River Walk — and with them, thousands of local residents — as the Cross Timbers Rotary held its eighth annual Rhythms at the River Walk fundraiser last Saturday, cementing the duck derby as both a community tradition and a cornerstone event for Flower Mound’s underutilized River Walk development.

After the Cross Timbers Rotary Club – which just celebrated its 10th birthday – was launched, its founders wanted to find a signature fundraising event to put on. Some visited a rubber duck race in another Texas town and they loved the idea. And fortunately, the newly completed Flower Mound River Walk was available.

“It was the natural choice,” said Nicole Smith Woodard, immediate past president of Cross Timbers Rotary. “It’s always been a symbiotic, win-win rel