LEWISTON — If you find yourself wondering whether the weather is going to hold back a balloon launch at the festival this weekend, you can get the answer without leaving the comfort of your home.
The Sun Journal will be live-streaming video all of the balloon launches, morning and evening, from the 19th Annual Great Falls Balloon Festival, on our website, sunjournal.com.
If you can’t make it down to Simard-Payne Memorial Park, you can watch the balloons rise and float away from your living room couch. We’ll have chatting with other Sun Journal readers alongside the video. And you can always find the latest news and information about the Great Falls Balloon Festival and everything else going on in our area, live and first online.
For more information and schedules for the festival, visit sunjournal.com/balloonfestival.
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- Bonnie Hayes and her 4-year-old granddaughter Isabel Hayes, both of Auburn, stroll through Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston on Thursday evening. The two came to watch hot air balloons lift off, however wind forced balloon pilots to cancel their flights.
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- Panorama composite from the first launch on Friday morning.
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- Friends and crew for balloon pilot Jim Rodrigue of Lewiston sit on the bag encasing the envelope of “Tailwinds,” the hot air balloon that Rodrigue rolled out at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston on Thursday evening. Rodrigue attempted to take a Lewiston family of three for their first balloon ride, but high winds and unstable weather forced him and other pilots to cancel their flights. Clockwise, from top left, are Tim Leeman of Lewiston, Kate Mawhinney of Turner, Diane Mawhinney of Turner, Hannah Rodrigue of Lewiston and Tracy Leeman of Lewiston. Six more balloon launches are scheduled through Sunday during the Great Falls Balloon Festival.
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