
Organizers say they are in need of local volunteers to help with the mass ascensions on Saturday and Sunday, August 23rd and 24th.
Walk-on crews are welcome.
Volunteers will get experience in the set-up and chase involved with hot air ballooning.
Anyone interested should show up with gloves to the east side of the Deming Youth Soccer Fields by 6:30 each morning and ask for Don Damstra.
The Great American Duck Race kicks off Thursday, August 21st, with the Duck Royalty Pageant in the Deming Public Schools Auditorium, and continues through the duck racing finals that Sunday afternoon.