BALLOONS TO CLIMB HIGH OVER A.V. FOR CHARITY.Byline: Karen Thacker Community Columnist It's not often there's a fund-raising event so full of hot air. Next weekend, however, hot air will be the main attraction at a Benefit Balloon and Kite Festival aimed at raising money for the Deaf Kids Kamp sponsored by a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. group called Sproul Ranch. Twenty balloons, whose owners come from as far as Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. and St. George, Utah St. George is a city located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and the county seat of Washington County, Utah.GR6 It is the principal city of and is included in the St. George, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. , will participate in the festival, taking place Saturday and Sunday at the Lancaster Auto Mall, on 10th Street West at Avenue K-8. There is no admission fee for the festival and food will be available. Starting at 8 a.m. both days, hot air balloonists will give rides - $10 for a ride in a balloon tethered Attached to a data or power source by wire or fiber. Contrast with untethered. to the ground, $80 for a 30-minute flight. For 50 cents, kids and adults can climb into a balloon basket. A kite-flying demonstration and kids kite event will begin at 10 a.m. both days. At 8 p.m. Saturday will be a Balloon Glow, in which lighted balloons will take to the skies. An awards ceremony is at 1 p.m. Sunday. Special ballooning events will occur at 6:30 a.m. each day. Early risers Saturday morning can watch the sky fill with hot air balloons This article is about hot air balloons themselves. For the associated activity, see Hot air ballooning. The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology, dating back to its invention by the Montgolfier brothers in Annonay, as they launch from the businesses of festival sponsors, including several car dealers, Hometown Buffet HomeTown Buffet is a buffet-style, sit-down restaurant chain headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with locations throughout the United States. Its wide selection of food include pizza, hot dogs, hot wings, sliced ham among many others. , Crazy Otto's and Hodgkins Jewelers. On Sunday, the 6:30 a.m. event is the ``key-grab'' competition. One balloonist chooses a spot three miles from the auto mall to set down and attach keys atop three 20-foot poles. The other balloonists maneuver their baskets down to where they can snag a key off the pole. The winner gets $20,000 or car worth that amount. |
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