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Coshocton Hot Air Balloon Festival will be June 5-7
By Jen Jones The Beacon
For more than 40 years, the Coshocton Hot Air Balloon Festival has been held at the county fairgrounds. This year the festival will be Thursday through Saturday, June 5-7. This is a free event,
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The festival will include kiddie rides, food vendors, craft booths, musical entertainment, children’ s activities, fireworks, night glow and hot air balloon launches.
The midway and vendors will open Thursday at 4 p. m., and there will be a wristband special of $ 15 for the kiddie rides from 4-9 p. m. Tethered balloon rides will be available from 6:30- 8:30 p. m. for $ 20, which will be donated to the FPC Community Connections Fund. A balloon launch will take place at 7 p. m.
On Friday the midway will open at 11 a. m. with the opening ceremony at 5:45 p. m. At 6 p. m. Music by Seventy80, presented by Standard Power, will be featured on the stage. A balloon launch will be at 6:45 p. m. with the balloon night glow at 9:15 p. m. The balloons will fill with
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For more than 40 years, the Coshocton Hot Air Balloon Festival has been held at the county fairgrounds. This year the festival will be Thursday through Saturday, June 5-7. This is a free event, thanks to local sponsors.
air and be lit up for the night glow.
The pilots will choose where to launch Saturday at 6:30 a. m. Tethered rides will be available from 7-8:30 a. m., and the midway will open at 11 a. m. From 11 a. m. to 3 p. m., a wristband special will be
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Free trading cards will be handed out during the Meet the Pilots event from 4:45-5:45 p. m., presented by the Ohio Laborers Union. More music, Aftermath, will begin at 6:30 p. m. and will be presented by Standard Power. The final balloon launch will be at 6:45 p. m. with fireworks at 10 p. m. The fireworks show is sponsored by Kraft / Heinz.
The festival committee wants everyone to understand all times with balloon launches are approximate and are weather dependent. Even if the weather is nice at the fairgrounds, the pilots must consider incoming weather. Safety is always the first consideration when making the decision about whether to launch or not. The tethered balloon rides also are weather dependent.
Follow the balloon festival Facebook page for updates about launches.
Sponsors of the balloon festival include The Frontier Power Company, Standard Power, Kraft / Heinz, Frontier Propane and the Ohio Laborers Union. Friends of the Festival are Coshocton City Fire Department, Coshocton Coffee Connection, Coshocton County EMS, Coshocton County CVB, Coshocton County Recycling and Litter Prevention, Domino’ s Pizza, H & R Block, Jackson Township Fire Department, Kimble Companies, Nelson Builders, Pearl Valley Cheese, Peddicord Rice Lepage Auction / Reality, Three Rivers Fire District, and Warsaw Lions Club.
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