They just couldn’t wait.
Dozens of eager youngsters darted onto the soccer field at Clover Dell Park before the signal was given to retrieve the first load of more than 3,000 Ping-Pong balls dropped by an airplane. The premature collections led to chaos Saturday at the first Sedalia Parks Department Snowball Hunt.
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