Anyone who plans to provide a sponsorship for Lamesa’s Original Chicken Fried Steak Festival and Crossroads Balloon Rally is asked to get those turned in as soon as possible. “If someone wants to sponsor a hot-air balloon or any other activity, including the festival itself, I need those sponsorships within the next week to 10 days,” Terri Stahl, event organizer, said this past Friday. Stahl said she needs the sponsorships several weeks before the festival in order to get everything lined up that goes along with those sponsorships. Held the last weekend of April each year, this year’s festival and rally will be ...