Balloon Launch: The latest in a series of high altitude unmanned balloon flights will be launched from Beiseker Airport at 9:00 a.m. Saturday! These balloons are filled with helium and carry scientific packages and video equipment aloft.
They can achieve altitudes of 100 000+ feet, more than twice as high as an airliner flies! After their mission is complete, the balloon deflates and the package parachutes to the ground somewhere far east of here! The launch is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. this coming Saturday morning!
Aggie Days: It appears that the media folks are mesmerized by all this election fruhaha and have totally ignored Aggie Days 2012! A seriously pinched nerve in my hip has prevented me from attending Aggie Days, but I'm getting frequent reports that all is going very well indeed. Wednesday, yesterday, and today are part of our Educational Component. At the end of today, Aggie Days will have seen about 10 000 students come through the BMO Center at Stampede Park. They've had a chance to see cows milked, sheep sheared, eggs layed, chicks hatched, grain threshed then milled into flour, plus a hundred other things happening on Alberta's farms and ranches.
Tomorrow is when the fun begins! Saturday and Sunday are Family Fun Days at Aggie Days. All those things that happen during the week happen again on the weekend but in a way we like to call "Edu-tainment"! You'll learn something about Alberta's agriculture and have fun too.
It's fun, it's family friendly, and it's free. It's at the BMO Centre - Stampede Park, Calgary, starting at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow and going to 5:00 p.m. On Sunday, it's the same start time but we close at 4:00 p.m. I hope you can make it down!
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