Golf balls to rain at Tupelo
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, August 18, 2003
Tupelo, Miss. — Visitors to this week's Tupelo Furniture Market have a chance to win $5,000 in a contest benefiting the City of Hope Cancer Center.
As many as 5,000 golf balls will rain from the sky outside Lane's Verona Plant at 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Aug. 23, from a crane provided by Jesco. The sponsor of a ball that goes into the target hole will win $5,000.
Marketgoers can buy sponsorships of numbered balls for $5 per ball at a booth in the lobby of Building I at the Tupelo Complex.
"This has proven to be a really fun way to help raise funds for cancer research," said Sharon White-Kuo of City of Hope, a Los Angeles-based research and treatment center for cancer and other serious diseases. "Anyone who wishes to view the drop can certainly join us on Saturday. Of course, we will contact the winner if he or she is not present."
The Lane plant is at 5830 Highway 145 South. White-Kuo can be contacted for information during market at (310) 428-3559 or (800) 272-2310.
