What if we dropped a hockey puck instead of a ball?
A city-organized ball-drop party at the downtown plaza on New Year's Eve would cost about $16,000, city councillors will learn next week.
Lamming will propose that the event take place at the downtown plaza, with a crane or boom truck used to drop a specially made steel ball from above. Or, Lamming suggests, Sault Ste. Marie could drop a similarly sized hockey puck, drawing on our rich history as a hockey town.
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