Note: You are seeing this text-only version of our site because you are using an older browser that is not standards-compliant. Some Netscape 7 and Mozilla users may see this warning in error. Click to fix the problem. | | Winner helped by 24 years experience VIDEO: By , Middletown Journal The winner of this year's Ohio Challenge Hot Air Balloon Festival has been involved in the sport for 24 years and he has his back yard to thank. Rick Cusick, of Lima, was asked years ago by a neighbor in Lima if he could launch his hot air balloon from Cusick's yard. "That was the start of it," Cusick said Sunday with a laugh. "I was hooked by the beauty. Then I started crewing and later I was invited to become a pilot." Cusick, who pilots the heart-beat design balloon named Arrhythmia, was the leader of the competition heading into Sunday's 7 a.m. flig

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