Marshmallow Rain Delights Children
It was rain and marshmallows Friday for 2,500 children here as a helicopter dropped 15,000 of the pillowy sweets in a drenched “new wave Easter egg hunt.”
The fifth annual “Great Marshmallow Drop” went off without incident despite the rain, said Vic Chiasson, leisure services coordinator at the Wayne Community Center in suburban Detroit.
“It was a zoo,” Chiasson said. “Everything went real well. The weather didn’t cooperate like we had hoped. But the kids all got their marshmallows and candy, so they’re pretty happy.”
The helicopter was rented from Helicopter Airways, a company based at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in suburban Romulus, Chiasson said.
The pilot made four separate drops--one to a group of physically handicapped children and the others to children paired by age. The marshmallows were exchanged for candy, he said.
“It’s sort of a new wave Easter egg hunt,” Chiasson said.
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