Summary
The dates for this year's Great Falls Balloon Festival fall inside the Maine Principals' Association "hands-off" dates, which means student-athletes will not be permitted to man their schools' booster club food booths at next month's festival. Doing so would violate MPA rules for student athletes and coaches to be involved in any organized team activity in the two weeks prior to the start of the fall sports season, prompting consequences from the MPA if they violate that mandate.
Every five years, or so, the two-week "hands off" sports mandate and the balloon festival overlap, requiring student athletes to step aside and requiring booster clubs to find other volunteers to flip burgers, pop the corn and pour the pop. It's something Lewiston High School Athletic Director Jason Fuller has been warning students, parents and coaches about since the spring. It's a policy that's been in place for years, and it just so happens that this year the dates don't coincide to allow students to work the booths, Fuller explained.See the full content of this document
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'Hands Off' the Food
According to Mel Hamlin, co-chairwoman of the festival's food committee and treasurer of the balloon fest...
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