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LISA JAMES/Press Canfield Middle School students watch as Vice Principal Jody Hittenbrand, left, measures the distance of a pingpong ball that landed farthest from a hole. PTA members Meg Westrup, right, and Nancy Hart help. The balls were dropped from a cherry picker positioned 40 feet in the air. It was all part of a fundraiser for the school's PTA. The students who sold the balls for $5 each were invited to eat snowcones and watch the balls fall to the ground. They also "got to get out of class," Hittenbrand said.

LISA JAMES/Press Canfield Middle School students watch as Vice Principal Jody Hittenbrand, left, measures the distance of a pingpong ball that landed farthest from a hole. PTA members Meg Westrup, right, and Nancy Hart help. The balls were dropped from a cherry picker positioned 40 feet in the air. It was all part of a fundraiser for the school's PTA. The students who sold the balls for $5 each were invited to eat snowcones and watch the balls fall to the ground. They also…

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.