Homemade balloon up to the task

Wade Stephens

ONE of the hot-air balloons competing in the Big Balloon Bash this week was actually home-built in a backyard shed in Irymple. Seventeen years ago, then Fourteenth Street resident Chris Peart decided he wanted a new hot-air balloon envelope, and set himself a task of creating a homemade one. With the assistance of his son […]

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