Great Falls Balloon Festival board member Matt Conklin reaches out and pretends to grab the basket of the Re/Max balloon as it does tethered launches Sunday morning after the launch was cancelled.
L&A Veterans Council raised money to get a Vietnam-era Corsair A-7D fighter jet transported from Montana to Lewiston's Veteran's Memorial Park last month. However, they could not fit the wings onto the trailer and need to raise another $6,000 to get them to Lewiston so L&A Veterans Council Chairman and American Legion Post 22 Commander, Jerry Dewitt, hat and tan shirt on ladder, took the opportunity of a large crowd in town to open the cockpit and give tours of the plane during the weekend's balloon festival in hopes of getting donations. Anyone interested in helping is asked to call Dewitt at 207-576-0376.
Nick Bouyea, of Lewiston, a crew member for the balloon Neon Dreamz holds onto the crown lines as it deflates at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston Saturday morning during the Great Falls Balloon Festival. Two balloons inflated but were taken down quickly as a light rain grounded the 3rd scheduled launch in a row at the start of the 2019 festival that continues through Sunday with morning and evening launches at 6:00.
