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PAYETTE
Following a shutdown in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Payette Apple Blossom Festival returns for its 98th anniversary in 2021. But how did the festival get planted in Payette? What has helped it take root? The Independent-Enterprise dug deep into its archives to share with you how this traditionâs seeds were sown and share examples of what has kept it growing to where it is today.
Sowing the seeds
The first Apple Blossom Festival was organized by the ladies of the Payette Portia Club and held on May 1, 1923. The editor of the Payette Enterprise at the time was quoted in the May 3, 1923 edition as saying âthe Apple Blossom Festival ⦠was the most complete success of any event in the history of the city.â
Carson High School sophomore Spenser Bray knew from an early age that he would be an engineer and aviator.
Bray spent hours and days in his garage experimenting with his fascination with design and flight. Through designing and flying gliders, then moving into RC design, Bray learned to understand the physics of flight as a remote pilot.
Bray joined the local High Sierra RC Club (HSRCC), which maintains the RC airport in Carson City; its members took Bray “under their wing” and provided him with resources, equipment, and guidance to better understand aerodynamics of an aircraft and how to pilot it.
Submitted by Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 551
(KNSI) – A St. Cloud area airplane club will give kids a complimentary birdseye view of the community next month.
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 551 is hosting a Young Eagles Flight Rally at the St. Cloud Regional Airport on Saturday, May 15.
Kids age 8 to 17 will have a chance to get taken aboard a plane and soar over the Granite City.
The rally is part of the EAA Young Eagles Program, created to interest young people in aviation.
Pilots at the event will also explain more about their airplanes, allowing young people to discover how planes work and how pilots ensure safety is the prime concern before every flight.