#GFBalloonFest If you couldn’t make it to the Great Falls Balloon Festival during the weekend, you can still watch each balloon launch on SunJournal.com. We will be sharing photos and videos of the festival fun in our social networks. Look for our videos and photos at: SunJournal.com/BalloonFestival SunJournal on Instagram
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Pilots skirt rain, broken alternator, to launch Sunday
LEWISTON — It wasn’t early morning rain that threatened to ground pilot Bill Colyer and his balloon “Last Penny” Sunday morning. It was a blown alternator in his chase truck. “Yesterday, it was acting a little funny,” said Pat Anderson, head of the chase crew. “Today, it stopped working.” Anderson put out the call on […]
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Pirates a big hit at Great Falls Balloon Festival
LEWISTON — Audrey Oquendo, 5, is a big fan of pirates. So she came to the Great Falls Balloon Festival pancake breakfast prepared Saturday morning. She tracked down Gypsy, a crew member of the Rockland-based Pirates of the Dark Rose, wordlessly reached into her backpack to retrieve a folded piece of paper and handed it […]
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Saturday evening’s launch
See more videos from the Great Falls Balloon Festival #GFBalloonFest: Watch the launch; share the launch If you can’t make it to the Great Falls Balloon Festival this weekend, you can still watch each balloon launch on SunJournal.com. We will be sharing photos and videos of the festival fun in our social networks. Look for […]
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Balloon festival scuttles 2nd launch on Saturday morning.
UPDATE: After checking the weather about 8 a.m., balloon festival organizers decided to cancel the second bonus launch for Saturday morning. We will have more details later. LEWISTON — Balloonists wasted no time Saturday morning, taking full advantage of calm winds to launch as soon after 6 a.m. as they could. Balloonmeister Mickey Reeder said […]
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Great Falls Balloon Festival grounded Friday night, but there’s plenty to eat
“It’s the lime rickeys,” said Dan St. Pierre, commander of the William Rogers Post for American Legion Post 153 — which, coincidentally, is the only group selling lime rickeys at the festival. “We get people that come up here from Portland, not to see the balloons,” he said. “They come up, buy two at a […]
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Friday morning balloon launch
Social media coverage of Friday morning’s launch. Live Blog Friday Morning Launch
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#GFBalloonFest: Balloons stay close to home as festival launches
“We had to drift around to get a good landing site,” said Willie Danforth, the passenger in the specially shaped balloon. “We’d get up and get a spot then the wind would change and give us a different current. At first, we thought we’d get a chance to land at Veterans Park.” The fancy balloon, […]
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Balloonists, Great Falls Balloon Festival crew hope for sun
LEWISTON — Balloon pilot Jim Rodrigue said he doesn’t get too worked up about weather forecasts. “If they forecast a great weekend, I never believe it on Wednesday,” said Rodrigue of Lewiston, a Great Falls Balloon Festival pilot since 1999. “I don’t even worry about the weather until it’s time to fly. I’ll wake up […]
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Right-sized Great Falls Balloon Festival ready to launch
LEWISTON — Now in it’s 22nd year, the Twin Cities’ signature Great Falls Balloon Festival looks a little different than it did back in the 1990s. Festival Balloon Meister Mickey Reeder said she’s expecting 17 balloons for a the 2014 festival, which kicks off Friday morning with launches at Lewiston’s Simard-Payne Park. That’s about half […]