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The Military Order of the Purple Heart joins the Boulder County Fair Parade in downtown Longmont on Saturday.

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Heaven Fest descends upon Union Reservoir, and fans rock out

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State Patrol Sgt. Kevin Crider gets the attention of a driver who wasn’t following instructions Saturday at Colo. Highway 119 and County Road 31/2. Crider was directing cars driving in from the east to a parking lot for Heaven Fest.

Highway to Heaven Fest mostly calm Throughfares to event see plenty of traffic, but no trouble

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Thousands rock out to Disciple, a rock band from Tennessee, during Heaven Fest at Union Reservoir in Longmont on Saturday.

Heat can’t keep the masses from massive Christian music festival

Decyfer Down guitarist Brandon Mills plays during the band’s set at Heaven Fest.

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By Magdalena Wegrzyn Longmont Times-Call

ONGMONT — Sunshine and temperatures edging into the 90s greeted Heaven Fest attendees on Saturday. That and two friendly teenagers. Firestone resident Jahre Escobar, 17, and Adam Olivo, 16, of Frederick met festivalgoers at

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the eastern gates with cardboard signs that read INSIDE: More “Free Hugs” in coverage of aquamarine Heaven Fest chalk. throughout “Just sharin’ SECTION A the love around us,” Olivo said, before leaning into hug a middleaged woman. Close to 40,000 people came out Please see HEAVEN FEST on A3

By Scott Rochat Longmont Times-Call

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ONGMONT — You can’t get to Heaven Fest on roller skates. Or bicycles. Or even in a pair of sneakers, for that matter. That just left cars. Lots of them. Cars by the thousand poured in for the Christian music festival Saturday morning, often experiencing massive tie-ups early on. At 10 a.m., it took half an hour to get from Colo. 119 to a parking place a mile and a half away along County Road 31/2; by noon, traffic along the highway

was stacked up for more than 2 miles, as far east as the Interstate 25 exit. But if the crowds were thick, they were also short-lived. By 2 p.m. , traffic had returned to a normal pace, with only short delays, if any, for those waiting to turn off Colo. 119. “Things are moving along pretty well,” said Brett Haberstick, a public information officer for the Boulder County Incident Management Team. “People are being very polite, very helpful and very patient.” Please see HIGHWAY on A2

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Baptisms in local reservoir bring some festivalgoers closer to God By Magdalena Wegrzyn Longmont Times-Call

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ONGMONT — Jamie Bell wanted to get baptized in a memorable place. “I wanted something

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unique,” she said. “I didn’t want it in the church setting.” So the 32-year-old Brighton woman was baptized Saturday afternoon at Union Reservoir. “I don’t have words for

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Kenny Camp, left, and Dave MacMullen, right, baptize Dawn Shorts, 55, in Union Reservoir on Saturday during Heaven Fest. “I was always going to go to Israel to be baptized, but this was just as good!” said Shorts, who was baptized at age 12 but didn’t understand its meaning then.

it,” Bell said, shaking slightly from the cold water after emerging from the reservoir.

Bell’s former sister-inlaw and friend for 19 years, Kendra Farmer, was by her side in the water. “It was a God thing,” said Farmer, 37, who traveled from El Paso, Texas,

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