For all of the Ontario Kite clubs! Video from Gary Mark.

This segment aired May 18th 2005 on TVO’s Planet Parent. The video was shot at the 2004 Kortright kite festival and features the Koch family along with Gary Mark and his family. Great comments and good tips for parents and volunteers. I particularly liked the creative use of bingo dobbers and stickers to build the kids kites :)

Two versions available: Quicktime format (.mov) 8.2 mb and Windows Movie (.wmv) 12.2 mb

Cheers,
–Bill

The Sunday Daily News did an article about the Fun Fly yesterday!

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Great photo!

–Bill

On Saturday the Halifax Area Recreational Kiters held the 2nd Annual Citadel Fun Fly. I invited the Dieppe, N.B. Sky Lines kite club again this year and 9 fliers decided to join us. We also had representation from PEI this year, Scott Ferguson drove down to join us on the wind swept hill. The winds were howling at aroun 40 Km/h and temperature dipped to about 2 degrees. Wow that’s cold, we couldn’t beleive that in the middle of May we would have such cold temperatures.

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Finally received a photo of the awards ceremony from Kitefest 2004. This is a shot of me, my second place trophy and my Ultra-light Hummingbird Rokkaku.

Cheers,
Bill

The 10th annual Industrial Alliance International Kite Festival took place on September 18 and 19th in Toronto. WOW what a treat!! Meeting so many nice people from around the world and spending time flying kites is a great way to spend a weekend. Bernie Houle from New Brunswick and I flew into Toronto on Thursday. After getting settled in our dorm room at the Seneca college we met John and Marzlie Freeman as well as Merv Cooper and Don Brownridge. John and Marzlie Freeman make some really beautiful kites using different quilting techniques as well as “traditional” applique techniques.
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