From left, Drequan Watson, Alaysia Carr, and Jaira Miles watch Saturday as Biscuit the Clown makes a pink poodle out of a balloon during the Community Summer Fest at Moton Park in Easton. The event, ...

The guy wearing the straw hat and the American flag vest handed me a balloon and told me to blow. My cheeks puffed out like Louis Armstrong's on the trumpet. My face turned a color that made an apple ...