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STUDENTS FIND OUT what’s like inside a hot air balloon at Bismarck-Henning Elementary School on May 24. Balloons Over
Vermilion and fourth-graders at Bismarck-Henning became partners for this year’s event.
Balloons ready to fly for inaugural event
BY JENNIFER BAILEY
EVENT SCHEDULE
JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM
DANVILLE — Balloons Over Vermilion
should be a whole lot of fun if the excitement of area elementary school children
and others participating in events is any
indication.
Organizers say
they’re ready to kick
things off with about
30 hot air balloons for
Balloons Over Vermilion on Friday and Saturday at Vermilion Regional Airport.
Event co-chairman Pat O’Shaughnessy
said he’s most looking forward to “dry
weather, soft winds and lots of kids’
smiles.”
Event co-chairman Jim Anderson echoed
those thoughts, saying he, too, is most
looking forward to “clear skies and gentle
winds.”
“There’s just so much enthusiasm in the
county,” Anderson said about the event
that’s been a long time in the making, adding that organizers also are enthused at the
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FRIDAY, JULY 15
3 p.m.: Gates Open
4:30 p.m.: Sponsors’ tents open
5 p.m.: Band, Steve Rodman & Rodman
Rail
5:30 p.m.: Tethered balloon rides*
6:30 p.m.: Balloon Flight*
7 p.m.: Band, Chad Hays Boat Drink
Caucus
8:30 p.m.: Balloon Glow*
9 p.m.: Band, 90’s Daughter
11 p.m.: Gates close
Midnight: Grounds close
SATURDAY, JULY 16
6 a.m.: Balloon Flights around Danville*
1 p.m.: Gates open
1 p.m.: Illiana Antique Car Show
1 p.m.: Band, El Quapo
2-3:30 p.m.: Balloon School for Kids
3 p.m.: Band, Bob Schifo Band
3–5:30 p.m.: Tethered balloon pictures*
4:45 p.m.: Band, Katapult
5:30-10 p.m.: Tethered balloon rides*
6:45 p.m.: Band, My Brother’s Keeper
7:30 p.m.: Balloon Fly-in and Glow*
9 p.m.: Band, My Brother’s Keeper
10:15 p.m.: Band, Willard Cratchelow
11:30 p.m.: Gates close
12:30 a.m.: Grounds close.
*All activities are weather-dependent.
Balloon times may be delayed or canceled
because of weather.
Admission: $5 per person (10 and
younger free with each paid adult).
Parking: $5 per vehicle (limited space) and
cash only. RVs: $20 limited number on site
(Friday and Saturday) and no utilities or water.
Shuttle Bus: Free bus transportation from
Walmart and Lowe’s and Heavenly Square
parking lots. A map and more information
about the event can be found at www.
balloonsoververmilion.com.
A final community event prior to the
weekend will be Thursday at the Danville
Boat Club.
The Danville Boat Club will host “Splash &
Dash,” a public event, from 5-10 p.m.,
featuring 10 balloons flying over Lake
Vermilion in competition for a $1,000 prize.
Admission is $20 per person ($10 for club
members) and includes draft beer. A cash
bar and food also will be available.
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number of volunteers who’ve
stepped forward to help.
The anticipation and pentup excitement have been
building since the event was
announced in January.
“I hope we see that with
the people,” O’Shaughnessy
said about people enjoying
what the area has been missing for 15 years.
That was the last year for
the Balloon Classic hot air
balloon event, which was an
annual local event for many
years.
New generations will be
able to enjoy the “splendor”
of the hot air balloons in the
sky, Anderson said, adding
that two of the special-shaped
balloons will be a pirate parrot and elephant.
Linda Bolton, another event
organizer, said the public’s
response so far and success at
community hot air balloon
events in Sidell, Georgetown
and Rossville also has been
wonderful.
That includes working with
the student hosts for this
year’s event — Bismarck-Henning fourth-graders.
Bolton said she and the
other organizers hope to get
more feedback to make
events better for next year.
Bolton joked the organizers
are now in the stage of no
longer sleeping. She said it’s
like how someone plans everything down to the last detail, but “we’re at the mercy of
the weather and people.”
“Everybody’s just looking
Yanez is cooperating with
state investigators, who interviewed him within 15 hours
of the shooting, Kelly said.
Several videos, including
squad car video, have been
collected, though St. Anthony
officers don’t wear body cameras, authorities said.
In the video she streamed
on Facebook Live, Reynolds
describes being pulled over
for what the officer told her
was a “busted tail light.” The
video shows her in a car next
to a bloodied Castile slumped
in a seat.
A clearly distraught person
who appears to be a police officer stands at the car’s window, tells her to keep her
hands up and says: “I told him
not to reach for it. I told him to
get his hand out.”
“You shot four bullets into
him, sir. He was just getting
his license and registration,
sir,” Reynolds calmly responds.
Court records show the traffic stop was at least the 52nd
time Castile, a 32-year-old
school cafeteria supervisor,
had been pulled over in the
Minneapolis-St. Paul area
since 2002.
Kelly said the broken tail
light wasn’t the only reason
for the latest traffic stop, but
he would not elaborate.
The following night, five
police officers were fatally
shot and others were wounded
during protests in Dallas over
Castile’s killing and the fatal
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identified the Dallas shooter
Trabaris said, but this is the
as an Army veteran who was
first time it’s been open to
later killed by police.
Vietnam-era veterans and
Sterling’s and Castile’s famitheir families.
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forward to getting there …
and getting the balloons in
the air,” she added.
Organizers are pleased at
the number of sponsors
who’ve stepped up, but they
also could use some more
volunteers.
Social media and radio stations will be used to pass
along traffic reports, parking
and other event news.
“We’re encouraging everybody to come out via car or
(shuttle) bus,” Anderson said.
Admission is $5 a person
and $5 a vehicle for parking
at the airport. Those who
take a shuttle bus will receive
a food coupon. Organizers
are encouraging visitors to
use shuttle buses, which will
travel back and forth from
multiple sites along the Bowman Avenue corridor.
There are five parking lots
at Walmart, Lowe’s and also
Heavenly Square on Bowman
Avenue available for free
parking and shuttle service to
the Vermilion Regional Airport.
Buses will run continuously, Bolton said.
“We’ll have it set up and do
the best we can,” she said.
O’Shaughnessy said Fred
Pancoast and others have put
together a parking and traffic
plan, with the help of the
Vermilion County Sheriff’s
Department manning the
area on Bowman to help
keep traffic moving.
O’Shaughnessy said they
hope for “a good flow in and
good flow out.”
He added that new Vermilion Regional Airport manager Mike Potter has opened
up more areas at the airport
to park than were previously
available with the Balloon
Classic.
Organizers also ask attendees to pay attention, leave
time to get to events and plan
ahead.
“Be patient and stay tuned,”
Bolton said.
In addition to the balloons
in the air, on the ground will
be about 20 food and beverage vendors, a beer tent, family and other areas including
a handicapped-accessible balloon.
Activities will include a
children’s zone with its own
stage, a balloon school, tethered balloon rides, sand volleyball tournament, sand castle building, face painting,
canvas art painting, character
drawing, Joyful Bubbles,
bounce houses and the city’s
media monster will show a
movie. There also will be an
antique car show.
Cyril Ostiguy with the Illiana Antique Automobile
Club said there will be close
to 300 cars coming from all
over.
The main stage entertainment line-up includes the
Bismarck-Henning fourthgraders performing with
Steve Rodman and Rodman
Rail. Bolton said the students
have felt like rock stars.
O’Shaughnessy said he and
Anderson have been saying
from Day 1 that the event
will appeal to kids of all ages.
The title sponsor of the
event for the next five years
is the Julius W. Hegeler II
Foundation, which has provided $100,000.
Veterans Affairs.
The Vietnam veterans and
their families are invited this
year as part of the VA’s participation in the United States
of America Vietnam War
Commemoration, which began Memorial Day 2012 and
extends through Veterans
Day 2025 to honor those who
served in the war. Learn
more at http://www.vietnamwar50th.com.
Jessica Crockett, patient
center care coordinator at the
VA, said the VA has become a
second commemoration event
this year; the first was dedicating a large replica of the
Vietnam Service Medal in
March in front of a tree that
was originally planted at the
Vietnam Wall in Washington,
D.C. The monument is located across from Building 98
on the VA Danville campus.
When Trabar is asked
Crockett about participating
in Welcome Home, Crockett
said, “We thought that would
be a nice way to tie these
events together this year.”
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