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JUNE 29-JULY 6, 2022
RAISING THE CURTAIN
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Lisa Britton
Go! Editor
Keep-Up Balloon
For someone who loves sports as
much as I do, I wish I was better at them.
In high school I played on varsity
sparingly but still made the basketball
team. Not a terrible career, but when your
younger brother comes after you and
sets the record for career points — 1,137
to my 50 — you don’t feel like a great
athlete.
So when my siblings and I started
hitting a balloon around, maybe it was
the built-up competitiveness from all the
minutes I never played that kicked in. In
minutes, a simple hit had developed into a
full-blown game, as we dove over every-
thing to keep the balloon in the air. And if
it hits the ground, too bad. That’s a point
for the other team.
After a few months, we played some
games on TikTok for our enjoyment. Two
years later, it has become our favorite
pastime.
Over time, we’ve built an army of
430,000 followers on the site, a following
that caught the attention of Ellen DeGe-
neres, who had us on her show in Decem-
ber.
The videos also inspired a Spanish
influencer and his friend FC Barcelona
player Gerard Pique to create an interna-
tional competition of Keep-Up Balloon,
the Balloon World Cup.
We were invited to Barcelona to play,
and while we lost in the first round to
Cuba, I can finally call myself an athlete.
High school me may have been a bit sur-
prised by the course it took to get there,
but hey, I’m not arguing.
— ANTONIO ARREDONDO,
NEWSROOM INTERN, EAST OREGONIAN
Antonio Arredondo/Contributed Photo
Diego Arredondo, left, and Antonio Arredondo pose for a
photo Oct. 13, 2021, before playing for the Balloon World
Cup in their game Keep-Up Balloon.
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‘The Lies I Tell’
SUBMIT NEWS
Clear your schedule to read
“The Lies I Tell” because this
book is nearly impossible to put
down from the first page.
It begins from the perspec-
tive of Kat Roberts, an unsatis-
fied journalist, who has waited
10 years to expose the many
grifts of Meg Williams, a con
artist whom she blames for al-
tering the course of her own life
when she was on an uphill tra-
jectory. She spots Meg across
the room at a crowded political
fundraiser and finally feels her
revenge fantasy is within reach.
The story then shifts to
Meg’s first-person narrative.
On the surface, she’s attending
the fundraiser at the invitation
of a new friend to mingle and
network. In reality, she’s been
plotting for weeks to get invited.
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tions from the start. For the
reader, these revelations lead
to questions about the possi-
ble gray area of doing what’s
“wrong” in order to make things
right.
Julie Clark, the best-selling
novelist of “The Last Flight,”
also has created a cautionary
tale about the internet and so-
Meg is skilled at putting herself
in the path of all the right people
to open doors and gain access
to others. She’s got her own
plan for retribution in the works
against the candidate for state
senator whom the fundraiser is
for.
The book shifts perspectives
between Kat and Meg so the
reader is in on their true inten-
cial media. If someone is adept
at sleuthing, they can build an
entire profile of a person based
off their digital footprint. This
book may want you to think
twice about sharing your every
move with the world, because
you never know who is paying
attention.
— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS