{"id":10794,"date":"2015-06-22T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:50:53","slug":"balloon-festival-provides-a-weekend-of-family-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=10794","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Festival provides a weekend of family fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>By Kim Chiomento<\/strong><\/span>, <em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">News Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1129948\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF20155-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1129948\" class=\"wp-image-1129948 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF20155-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"BF20155\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1129948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A festival volunteer works to help position a tethered balloon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TOUGHKENAMON &#8211; The Chester County Balloon Festival went on, despite a very challenging weekend forecast. Tens of thousands of visitors, from across the region, came to Chester County\u2019s New Garden Flying Field to be a part of the fun and support the 2015 festival beneficiary \u2013 The Chester County Hero Fund.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nNow in its ninth year, the Festival has grown to include entertainment and activities for all ages including helicopter and tethered balloon rides, a zip line, scuba diving lessons, live bands, food vendors, shopping and informational sessions on various forms of flight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10797\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10797\" class=\"wp-image-10797 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"BF2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF2015.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a balloon is inflated and tested prior to flight.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pilots, crews and balloons came from as far away as Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and New Jersey. With safety as a top priority, the challenging conditions of higher than acceptable winds and forecasted heavy storms kept many of the balloons grounded for the majority of the weekend. However, visitors did get to enjoy the popular, illuminated \u201cballoon glow\u201d Friday evening, and also experience tethered balloon, helicopter and plane rides during portions of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1129956\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF20157-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1129956\" class=\"wp-image-1129956 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BF20157-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"BF20157\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1129956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festival attendees gearing up for scuba lessons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The festival\u2019s proceeds will help provide financial assistance to the families who are left with little or no support when an emergency responder loses their life, or is seriously injured, in the line of duty through its support of the Chester County Hero Fund.<br \/>\nPlans are already underway for a 2016 festival, with details being released soon. For more information, visit ccballoonfest.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kim Chiomento, News Editor, The Times TOUGHKENAMON &#8211; The Chester County Balloon Festival went on, despite a very challenging weekend forecast. Tens of thousands of visitors, from across the region, came to Chester County\u2019s New Garden Flying Field to be a part of the fun and support the 2015 festival beneficiary \u2013 The Chester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,7],"tags":[3969,6040],"class_list":["post-10794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-featured","tag-chester-county-balloon-festival","tag-chester-county-hero-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}