Dane Best declared victory over a longtime law that had been interpreted to have prohibited the launching of snowballs, as if they were missiles, within the limits of the town. The Town Board, which had recently clarified the wording of the law, handed Best a snowball that they had preserved in a freezer (because, oddly, no snow was on the ground at the time); then, Best threw the snowball into the air, celebrating his teacher-inspired lesson in local governance.

Best, a third-grader, and other students at Range View Elementary School had embarked on an educational government lesson by visiting Town Hall. Mayor Don McLeod had told Best and his classmates about some rather odd laws that were still on the books. One of those was Chapter 2, Section 13 of the town charter, which specifically prohibited the launching of projectiles within town limits. The Weld County town of 4,275 (as of the 2017 Census Bureau) was founded in 1906 and incorporated in 1920 and named after David Severance, a pioneer settler; the settlement's original name was Tailholt.

The town trustees simplified the language of that and other laws when they put them online in 2007. However, the ordinance as it stands in legal technicality still says this:

"It is unlawful for any person to throw or shoot any stone or any other missile upon or at any person, animal, building, tree or other public or private property; or at or against any vehicle or equipment designed for the transportation of persons or property."

McLeod (right) said that the ordinance still technically prohibited the throwing of snowballs because of clarifications dating to the origin of the charter but also that the town had not enforced the ban and so did not have a requisite penalty.

Best prepared a set of slides and delivered his presentation to the town trustees and to about 150 other people in the audience. Best said that he had collected signatures of 20 other students and his teacher, all of whom supported his effort to get the ban overturned. He also said that during his research, he had found that three other Colorado towns had the same law.

None of the Town Board trustees (McLeod, Frank Bazsler, Michelle Duda, Bruce Florquist, Matthew Gordon, and Dennis Kane), was in opposition, and the ban was lifted. (Technically, a snowball was clarified as not being a missile.) McLeod gave Best a plaque and a gift card good for purchase of a snowball maker.