Line technician Gary Bergeron and fellow line worker Alan Bowering are used to fixing electrical problems, not dropping pingpong balls from the bucket of their Unitil truck.
“I never heard this one before,” Bergeron said as Bowering grabbed a mesh basket fill with about 700 pingpong balls and climbed into the bucket in the middle of a field at YMCA Camp Lincoln Tuesday night.
Unitil volunteered the two workers and a truck to participate in the youth camp’s first Pingpong Ball Drop to raise money for a summer camp scholarship benefiting children in need of financial help.
Each ball had a number and the one that landed closet to a hole in the ground was the winner. That number was 417 and it was purchased by Bob Mitchell, who won $1,000 but donated the big prize back to the camp.
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