{"id":477657,"date":"2026-09-27T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477657\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:06:13","slug":"hot-air-balloons-rise-over-old-town-clovis-for-the-annual-clovisfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477657\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloons rise over Old Town Clovis for the annual ClovisFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (<a href=\"http:\/\/yourcentralvalley.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"yourcentralvalley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 The 51st annual ClovisFest is underway this weekend, shutting down 12 blocks of Old Town Clovis and bringing the community together for two days of festivities.<\/p>\n<p>As the sun came up early Saturday morning, so did the hot air balloons for the annual ClovisFest and Hot Air Balloon Fun Fly.<\/p>\n<p>Event coordinator Priscilla Montell says ClovisFest is all about family and community engagement, bringing people together along with countless family-friendly vendors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou absolutely need to come both days to come and get a feel for everything that the festival has,\u201d Montell said. \u201cEspecially all the food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Event attendee Guillermo Lopez brought his friends and family early to get a look at everything and still didn\u2019t beat the crowd at ClovisFest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try to get out as early as possible,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard to get up because we got to beat the traffic, the parking lots get full.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No matter how far they parked or how far they walked on day one, Lopez says ClovisFest is a family tradition that means more than just a morning in Old Town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are memories that are going to last forever, and everybody should be a part of that,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p>ClovisFest continues Sunday, with the second day beginning bright and early with the Hot Air Balloon Fun Fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 The 51st annual ClovisFest is underway this weekend, shutting down 12 blocks of Old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-477657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}