Tetona Dunlap
For the Times-News
TWIN FALLS â Postponing the new year for 79 days may seem a little crazy. Especially when it means extending a year like 2020.
But thatâs exactly what David Woodhead wants to do.
Nearly every year for the past 18 years, Woodhead and his friends have lowered a 40-pound brass ball from the top of the grain elevators at the corner of Fifth Avenue South and Shoshone Street.
The ball had no intended purpose when Woodhead bought it for $14 at an auction. Now the silo ball drop draws hundreds, is over in a matter of seconds, and has become a New Yearâs tradition in Twin Falls.