{"id":937,"date":"2011-09-07T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuulstuff.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2011-09-07T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:55:33","slug":"quad-cities-balloon-festival-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/quad-cities-balloon-festival-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Quad Cities Balloon Festival 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad Cities Balloon Festival is planned from September 23rd to 25th at the Kennedy Square in East Moline. The event is free but donations of non-perishable food items are encouraged. All the proceedings from the QC Balloon Festival go toward the\u00a0River Bend Food Bank Backpack Program, which feeds hungry children in Quad Cities.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"QC Balloon festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qcballoonfestival.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">QC Balloon festival<\/a>\u00a0is scheduled from September 23rd to\u00a025th. The event hosts the launch of 20 hot air balloons, glowing in the dark, art fair, car show, and pan cake breakfast. The <a title=\"Hot air balloon pilots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qcballoonfestival.com\/Pilots.html\" target=\"_blank\">pilots <\/a>are local experts in launching and operating hot air balloons. The pilots involve in different competitions including bean bag toss and races.<\/p>\n<p>River Bend Food Bank is a hunger relief organization which feeds 45, 000 meals for children every year. It also operates four Kids Cafe Sites and Backpack Program. Through the Backpack Program, the food bank aims to supply food for children who do not have food during weekends. Every Friday, the kids who do not have food facilities at home are given easily\u00a0cook able\u00a0meals packets for use during the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>You can park your vehicle at the Kennedy Square Parking lot and bring your lawn chairs to enjoy the show. The festival is handicap accessible but does not allow smoking and pets. The Balloon launch is <a title=\"Schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qcballoonfestival.com\/Schedule.html\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled <\/a>for Friday and Sunday 5pm and Saturday 7am. While all the activities are dependent on weather, let&#8217;s hope for a fun filled Balloon festival. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad Cities Balloon Festival is planned from September 23rd to 25th at the Kennedy Square in East Moline. The event is free but donations of non-perishable food items are encouraged. All the proceedings from the QC Balloon Festival go toward the River Bend Food Bank Backpack Program, which feeds hungry children in Quad Cities.<a href=\"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/quad-cities-balloon-festival-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quad Cities Balloon Festival 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[793,328,794,180,791,78,790,792],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","tag-backpack-program","tag-east-moline","tag-kennedy-square","tag-moline","tag-qc-balloon-festival","tag-quad-cities","tag-quad-cities-balloon-festival","tag-river-bend-food-bank"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AvRz-f7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1464,"url":"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/quad-cities-summer-events-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":937,"position":0},"title":"Quad Cities Summer Events 2016","author":"admin","date":"June 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Summer of 2016 brings record high temperatures to Quad cities along with annual events. 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