‘Pie in the Sky’ festival lights up Kyle

A balloon representing the city of Plano performs a “glow” during the first hours of the “Pie in the Sky” hot air balloon festival in Kyle. Events continue today in a field near Lake Kyle. Photos by Randolph Goodman/Gary Job Corps

Gary Job Corps Security Cadets are directing traffic and assisting with crowd control for the entire event, this will be the second year that the cadets have assisted the city of Kyle. Pictured in the group are the Embassy Suites volunteers Diane Khniong, Alexandria Carter, Andrea Bishop, Michele Hernandez, Tanner Koehler, Bridget Gaughan, Brendan Picard, Pablo Zuniga, Christopher Benton, Ruth Buck and Elva Zdeb, Kyle City Manager Scott Sellers, and Susanne Ritter, Randolph Goodman, CRC member Ruben Becerra and Gary Security Cadets, all from Gary Job Corps Center.

One of the festival’s biggest attractions was the unique Well’s Fargo balloon, which looks like the stagecoach that serves as the company’s logo. For more on the goings on, visit the Kyle Pie in the Sky website.