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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - ClovisFest begins Saturday, featuring household activities, nutrient and the yearly Hot Air Balloon Fun Fly.
Pilots began preparing their balloons Friday greeting - and immoderate headed implicit to the Clovis Rodeo Grounds aboriginal to ticker their trial flights. Greg Newman with the Clovis Chamber of Commerce says helium looks guardant to ClovisFest each year.
“It's 1 of those events that marque up the cloth of our community,” Newman said.
The Old Town Clovis festival volition gully thousands of visitors connected Saturday and Sunday.
“Even though I've been doing this for astir 30 years, it inactive excites maine and I'm inactive 1 of the archetypal ones with my camera,” said blistery aerial balloon aviator Bob Locklin.
There volition beryllium 11 blistery aerial balloons connected show this year, the astir they person ever had. Comcast is sponsoring this year’s caller balloon.
“The Xfinity Rewards balloon - it’s the archetypal clip we're present successful California, the archetypal clip specifically present successful the Clovis area,” said aviator Jacob Little.
Little says his balloon is unsocial due to the fact that of its appendages successful the signifier of hearts.
Not each blistery aerial balloons connected Saturday volition beryllium floating distant from Clovis: 2 volition stay tethered to the crushed and reserved for assemblage rides. Each thrust is $20.
Newman says the festival is not lone amusive for attendees: section businesses acquisition their ain benignant of ostentation arsenic well.
“You know, each the events that we bash present successful Clovis bring thousands and thousands of radical to our assemblage to bask these events. And those thousands and thousands of radical bring millions of dollars into our community,” Newman said.
The blistery aerial balloons volition instrumentality disconnected astatine sunrise connected Saturday, but organizers urge balloon watchers get by 6 a.m. to find a bully place.
