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Candi Stone helps hold the fabric of a hot air balloon as it inflates during a test run this week. Stone is one of the volunteers who will serve on crews during the Balloons Over Grenada Festival Oct. 26 and 27 at Grenada Lake. Staff photo / Galen Holley
 
By GALEN HOLLEY
Staff Writer


   It looked like the scene at the end of The Wizard of Oz.
   The balloon, which moments before had been weighted down with the muscle of Grenada firefighters, gradually lifted from the pavement. Sandy Smith, from the Grenada Tourism Department, looking a little like Dorothy, waved goodbye to all her friends.
   Ohhs and ahhs rose up as Smith, along with pilot Mark Bowie, drifted high over Sunset Dr., carried by the breeze. They gradually became just a dot in the bright, evening sky.

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