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LISA JAMES/Press Canfield Middle School Principal Nick Lilyquist, left, does a mic test with Paul Forte, of 40 Equipment Rental, as he gets ready drop 1,000 pingpong balls from 45 feet in the air Monday morning. The balls were sold by students for $5 a piece, to raise a total of $4,500 for the PTA. Only students who sold balls were invited to watch the drop. Prizes were also awarded for the top sellers and the balls that landed closest and farthest from the hole.

LISA JAMES/Press Canfield Middle School Principal Nick Lilyquist, left, does a mic test with Paul Forte, of 40 Equipment Rental, as he gets ready drop 1,000 pingpong balls from 45 feet in the air Monday morning. The balls were sold by students for $5 a piece, to raise a total of $4,500 for the PTA. Only students who sold balls were invited to watch the drop. Prizes were also awarded for the top sellers and the balls that landed closest and farthest from the hole.

May 23, 2017

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A deluge of pingpong balls
May 23, 2017 1 a.m.

A deluge of pingpong balls

Pingpong balls rain down from 40 feet above the ground Monday morning while students watch at Canfield Middle School in Coeur d’Alene. The balls, dropped from a cherry picker by Canfield Principal Nick Lilyquist, were sold for $5 each to raise $4,500 for a PTA fundraiser. The students who sold the balls were invited to watch them drop while eating snowcones. Prizes were awarded for the balls that landed closest and farthest from a hole.