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Canfield Middle School students watch as Vice Principal Jody Hittenbrand gets ready to measure the pingpong ball farthest from the hole after Principal Nick Lilyquist dropped 1,000 pingpong balls from a 40-foot high crane on Monday morning.
May 23, 2017
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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.