This is our third Balloon festival and we hope to make it a yearly event, we will have rides, a balloon glow, pilots supper, and champagne breakfast. We will have tastings of local craft beer and wines, a bar-b-que cook-off, a car and tractor show, and craft vendors. We have many wonderful things lined up for the kids also!  Everyone is so excited to welcome the pilots and treat them well so that they will return year after year. Celebrity golf tournament will include pro and collegiate football players. We will also be celebrating our 152nd anniversary; Cozad, NE was founded in 1873 by John J. Cozad.