COLUMBUS – The April showers at the Columbus Division of Police training academy on the West Side will be marshmallows, not raindrops.
The division will host its first ever Marshmallow Drop at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, at the Columbus Police Academy at 1000 North Hague Avenue.
The division is partnering with City of Grace, the Columbus Dream Center, and Rock City Church for the event, where over 1,000 marshmallows will be dropped from a police helicopter into the parking lot.
Once the marshmallows are dropped, children will be able to run around and collect as many marshmallows as they can and then turn in the marshmallows for prizes, spokesman Ofc. Anthony Johnson said.
Prizes are limited to the first 100 children who turn in ten or more marshmallows.
There will also be a display of police equipment set up in the parking lot.