Rotary golf balls drop for charity
Desert Valley Times
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
The glowing objects falling out the night sky last Saturday at The Palms golf course were not signs of an alien invasion, but a sign that some people won some prizes.
Riley Frei was the winner of the first prize of $2,500 in the Mesquite Rotary Club’s second annual Glow in the Dark Golf Ball Drop which raised about $2,500 for the polio eradication campaign and for local charitable causes.
The Rotarians sold tickets for numbered golf balls which were put in a hopper and hoisted above a special surface with 10 holes, then dropped. For each ball that went into a hole, a prize was awarded.
Ticket holders were also entitled to play in the Rotarians’ Glow in the Dark Golf Adventure, playing nine holes in the dark with glowing golf balls. Continue Reading…