Number 61 The newsletter of the South Jersey Kite Flyers Volume #2 2006 The Mother of all Rubber Ducks By Mike Dallmer Imagined by: The Dallmers Designed by: Mike Jr. Built by Mike Jr. and Mike What do you get when you combine 250 yards of yellow rip-stop, 50 yards of orange rip-stop, 500 ft of 500# dac- ron line, 2 spools of over 3,000 feet of thread, 12 rolls of double sided tape, 36 ft of 1/ 2” ID pipe insulation and over 250 hours of Dallmer time? What! A 25 ft. tall, 25 ft. long 45 lb. “Mother Rubber Ducky”. Work on What started about October 15, 2005, first flight was March 5, 2006. Those of you who have been at our home and in our basement may wonder, what were we thinking? How could you build something like that in a 14” wide row home? Let me tell you, initially it wasn’t too bad but the last few seams were almost impossible. Picture wrestling about 30 pounds of What into a sewing machine. This was accomplished with Mike Jr handling What and me feeding the sew- ing machine. On top of that, the final seams used 3 full bobbins!!! Mike Jr did the design work on his computer using 3-D modeling software, then had the pattern pieces printed out on paper full sized. My only complaint with his design is that there are over 300 individual pieces. He explained that it is necessary for that many pieces to get the correct shape, and the final product proves him right. Cutting the fabric out was another chore as our light table is only 4’ x 8”, many of the pieces are larger than that. After many hours of work, on March 5, 2006 What was ready for his test flight. I hurt my back in the morning and the winds were gusting to over 15 MPH, but what the heck, at least it was warm. Mike Jr and I trudged What and his en- tourage out onto the field while “chicken” Cel stayed in the van to do What photos. We used a 36 sq. ft. power sled as a What lifter and aircraft tie downs as anchors. When we hooked What up and turned him into the wind we were AMAZED! First at how quickly it inflated (a major concern) and secondly at how large 25 feet really is! It seamed to me What inflated in less than 2 minutes. Then we realized we should have used a larger lifter kite. Oh Well, next time we’ll have a yellow lifter. We couldn’t get What’s head to come up plus the gusty winds made the lifter kite unstable. After ad- miring our work and check- ing for stress points (a few need reinforcing) it was de- cided to bring What down and put What away. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN INFLATED 25 FOOT RUBBER DUCKY? Try grabbing the tail, too high, try grabbing the fabric anywhere near the tail, OH HECK, when What is inflated he is real taut. Wait for a lull in the gusts, then open the Velcro Vent, that worked. After pulling the tail into the wind, we opened the Velcro and tried venting it, OH NO, too much air and brilliant me built valves into the front inflation vents stopping air from escaping. Why valves, on of the concerns when building the duck was will it inflate, I came up with the valve idea to make sure air wouldn’t es- cape once inside, guess what, they work too good. So we grabbed some more What and tried squishing him down, sort of worked, then Mike Jr and Cel, who thought we were hav- ing too much fun, decided to lay on it. Good and bad idea, the ducky stated deflating but when a gust came along, I got dragged on the ground, Mike got tossed off like he was on a kid’s bouncy and Cel got rolled off What. After about 45 minutes and the help of stranger who was watching us the entire time, we finally got What totally deflated. Mike Jr, Cel, the stranger and I attempted to stuff What into the largest compression bag we have and found out it wasn’t big enough, we have to get all the air out to make him fit. South Jersey Kite Flyers March 2006 Page 1
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Number 61 The newsletter of the South Jersey Kite Flyers Volume #2 2006
The Mother of all Rubber DucksBy Mike Dallmer
Imagined by: The DallmersDesigned by: Mike Jr.Built by Mike Jr. and Mike
What do you get when you combine 250 yards of yellow rip-stop, 50 yards of orange rip-stop, 500 ft of 500# dac-ron line, 2 spools of over 3,000 feet of thread, 12 rolls of double sided tape, 36 ft of 1/2” ID pipe insulation and over 250 hours of Dallmer time? What! A 25 ft. tall, 25 ft. long 45 lb. “Mother Rubber Ducky”.
Work on What started about October 15, 2005, first flight was March 5, 2006. Those of you who have been at our home and in our basement may wonder, what were we thinking? How could you build something like that in a 14” wide row home? Let me tell you, initially it wasn’t too bad but the last few seams were almost impossible. Picture wrestling about 30 pounds of What into a sewing machine. This was accomplished with Mike Jr handling What and me feeding the sew-ing machine. On top of that, the final seams used 3 full bobbins!!!
Mike Jr did the design work on his computer using 3-D modeling software, then had the pattern pieces printed out on paper full sized. My only complaint with his design is that there are over 300 individual pieces. He explained that it is necessary for that many pieces to get the correct shape, and the final product proves him right. Cutting the fabric out was another chore as our light table is only 4’ x 8”, many of the pieces are larger than that.
After many hours of work, on March 5, 2006 What was ready for his test flight. I hurt my back in the morning and the winds were gusting to over 15 MPH, but what the heck, at least it was warm. Mike Jr and I trudged What and his en-tourage out onto the field while “chicken” Cel stayed in the van to do What photos. We used a 36 sq. ft. power sled as a What lifter and aircraft tie downs as anchors. When we hooked What up and turned him into the wind we were AMAZED! First at how quickly it inflated (a major concern) and secondly at how large 25 feet really is! It seamed to me What inflated in less than 2 minutes. Then we realized we should have used a larger lifter kite. Oh Well, next time we’ll have a yellow lifter. We couldn’t get What’s head to come up plus the gusty winds made the lifter kite unstable. After ad-miring our work and check-ing for stress points (a few need reinforcing) it was de-cided to bring What down and put What away.
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN INFLATED 25 FOOT RUBBER DUCKY? Try grabbing the tail, too high, try grabbing the fabric anywhere near the tail, OH HECK, when What is inflated he is real taut. Wait for a lull in the gusts, then open the Velcro Vent, that worked. After pulling the tail into the wind, we opened the Velcro and tried venting it, OH NO, too much air and brilliant me built valves into the front inflation vents stopping air from escaping. Why valves, on of the concerns when building the duck was will it inflate, I came up with the valve idea to make sure air wouldn’t es-cape once inside, guess what, they work too good. So we grabbed some more What and tried squishing him down, sort of worked, then Mike Jr and Cel, who thought we were hav-ing too much fun, decided to lay on it. Good and bad idea, the ducky stated deflating but when a gust came along, I got dragged on the ground, Mike got tossed off like he was on a kid’s bouncy and Cel got rolled off What. After about 45 minutes and the help of stranger who was watching us the entire time, we finally got What totally deflated. Mike Jr, Cel, the stranger and I attempted to stuff What into the largest compression bag we have and found out it wasn’t big enough, we have to get all the air out to make him fit.
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Bottom line, What the duck, works and looks great but a little more work needs to be done before we fly What again. We need to add a hand hold to the tail area, reinforce a few locations, and add a usable vent in the belly of the beast.
You may be wondering why 36 ft of 1/2” ID pipe insulation was needed? What’s feet, of course
WhatBy Cel Dallmer
It all started one warm summer night in 2005, we were sitting around the dinner table and the ideas started fly-ing. We were drenched in ideas about what to build that we hadn’t seen before and low and behold a Rubber Ducky came to mind. So we built a little prototype, a ghostly aber-ration of a rubber duck. As we watched it inflate, we thought, should we, could we, would we do bigger?
Of course! Now the problem was, how big? Double it? Not big enough! 25 ft. sounded like a nice round number. Until we inflated What. Holy rubber ducky! When What inflated we were surprised to see how large What really was. We should have realized how big What would be because we have done big things before. I measured an area at work and discovered it was too small to inflate What, I realized we were thinking something much more manageable. Maybe that is what they mean by dream big. Dream big we did!
Marie Katzenbach Kite Dayby Dave Ciotti
This past Friday morning saw the beginning of my kite flying season, and it’s one of the closest kite events to my house I have ever attended. The Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf on Sullivan Way in Trenton held their annual Kite Day organized by Roger Chewning.
The sky looked threatening but the ground was dry and the temperature was comfortable as long as there was no wind. No wind! Aren’t we going to a kite event? Better bring the indoor kites.
Parking was right next to the flying field, power and bath-rooms were readily available and there was a very enthusi-astic audience along with over a hundred participants. Roger spent the previous few weeks helping over 150 stu-dents build kites for the event. The day started with a few “Professional Kiters” demonstrating what kite flying is all
about. Then the Bols were brought onto the field and the kids discovered the exhilaration of Running the Bols!
Then Roger started with the youngest kids, kindergartners and worked up to the high school students. They all brought their creations onto the field and flew for a couple of minutes each.
What the Duck made an appearance but there was not enough wind for the pilot kite to lift What’s head off the field. The Dallmers had the presence of mind to bring several hundred rubber ducks which the kids were thrilled to received. Rub-ber ducks were the biggest hit of the day.
We ended the day with a delicious free meal provided in the cafeteria of the school. Roger did another fine job with the Kite Day for the Trenton School. They will be hard pressed to find a replacement for him next year when the Marie Katzenbach Kite Day is scheduled. Well done Roger!
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Presidential Ponderings and Bear DroppingsBy Mike Dallmer
Is it Spring already? Cannot tell it by the weather outside, today is March 21 and the GREAT WEATHER PEOPLE are calling for a couple of inches of snow to-morrow, can you believe it? Aren’t we supposed to be outside flying kites?
And Flying Kites we will do!!! April is National Kite Month, www.nationalkitemonth.org Check the calendar and come out and join us for many fun-filled flying days. There are many events listed in the coming months and we will need your help. We es-pecially need help where SJKF will be kite making: 4/8/2006 Bucks County Free Library Kite, 6/03/2006 Main Line Art Center Fly, 6/10/2006 West Deptford Library Children’s Kite Making Workshop. Then there are many other events where without us, there wouldn’t even be a fly, come out and join us. Don’t forget: Sa-kura Sunday Festivities and Kite Fly, Bensalem Central Park Kite Fly, MIKE / MASKC, Belmar Kite Fly and of course ECSKC / WWIKF
SJKF has some exciting news about the Wildwood Kite Festival, we will again be doing an opening night party on Friday, this year it is being called the Wildwood So-cial. What makes this different is we are not doing the usual BBQ but instead will be serving: desserts, appe-tizers, finger foods and things like that. The event will run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm and give everyone an op-portunity to get together. It will be held at the pool area of the Oceanic Hotel, the host hotel for the event. Of course SJKF will need help with the setup, the clean up and the food to be served. Andy S. and Sam F. are tak-ing care of the setup and cleanup while Cel D is in charge of getting all the goodies together. Got a special thing you make and want to donate, let Cel [email protected] know about it.
Plans are underway already for this year’s Anniversary Bash. We are going back to Wildwood on October 15, the location is the Montego Bay Motel in Wildwood, it looks like a fabulous place and they are excited to have us. Along with that SJKF will be running a Raffle, tick-ets will be $10.00 each. What do you win, a fabulous weekend at the Montego Bay Motel the weekend of the Anniversary Bash, only condition is the winners have to open their doors on Sunday for the Anniversary Bash so that we can use it for food, auction and staging.
When I took over as President I thought that getting in touch with past flyers whose membership had expired for more than 6 months might be a good idea. 98 letters went sent out to these past members and from that 9 have renewed, WELCOME BACK! I even got a letter from someone wanting to know why they didn’t get one and could I send them one out. I guess that idea paid off.
Plans are also underway for this year’s Holiday Party, I can tell you now that we will be going to a new location called the Ventura. More information will follow as soon as I have it.
Ever been to SJKF Meeting? If not come and see what you’re missing. Food, friends, good time and of course, me talking. If you come to the meetings, thank you very much! The meetings are very important to what SJKF does and how we operate, without you guys this thing called a kite club wouldn’t work. Your views and opin-ions are important and needed, please express yourself.
On a personal note, check out the article about our new Rubber Ducky in this issue of WindWriters, what a beast!!!
News Flash, Our May meeting is being held Saturday, May 20, at the Belmar Kite Festival!!!
Good WindsUp With Kites, Down With Bears (But only with a chute)
Hooked, Fished in.Like a salmon, I’ll be returning here again and again. “Here” is Fort Worden, in Port Townsend, Washington, for the 23rd annual kite-makers retreat.
My sister lives in Seattle, so I thought it would be a fun trip to visit her, then build kites all weekend. So I packed up my Pfaff, put a 4’ straight edge into my kite bag, and headed west. And other than my sister, nobody knew I was coming. To surprise my friend Marla Miller, I had even registered for the retreat under a phony name.
Sister Gail and I had a great time, visiting Seattle landmarks like the Aquarium, Experience Music Project, and Kathy Goodwind’s Gasworks Park Kite Shop. Then we hopped a ferry across Puget Sound, and drove up the Olympic Penin-sula to Port Townsend. It’s a funky waterside artist’s commu-nity, with spectacular views and cool galleries. Unfortunately, that’s where I was when I learned of the sudden death of my good friend Mike Gillard, which cast a shadow over the next few days.
On to the Fort, an old artillery base turned state park, guarding the Straits of Juan de Fuca. You’d recognize the white barracks and houses as the setting for “An Officer and a Gen-tleman.” It was an ideal setting for rising early stand-ing atop the bluff, and watching the sun rise, framed between the snowy Mount Baker and cloud-wrapped Mount Rainier. Buildings throughout the park are used for the retreat, with as many as nine classes running at once. After surprising Marla (those of you who know the AKA’s Region 10 director will understand what a big deal it was that my appearance shut her up for a full 15 seconds) and some Thursday evening socializing with the other 150 kite-builders in attendance, I was up early for my first class.
That was Gerri Pennell’s basic sewing course. (Remember the Pennells from Wildwood last year?) Gerri was a bit nerv-ous, thinking that I was an expert kite-maker crashing her class. In reality, I’d only ever had one sewing lesson and made four kites – I can appliqué but not hem, believe it or not – so her simple windsock project was a good place to start.
After lunch I was painting with Don Mock. He’s using acryl-ics on rip-stop, and my eyes were opened to possibilities of color and shape that appliqué doesn’t offer. Blending shades, using liquid latex for effects, scraping off layers of paint with a credit card… wow, have I got some things to try. We left our wet sails to dry, for finishing on Sunday.
Ft. Worden meals are fantastic. The new dining hall is restau-rant quality with plenty of variety, and I ate well. During each meal there were raffles, with hundreds of prizes ranging from kite postcards and pins to clothing and jewelry up to kites by Jose Sainz, Barry Poulter, Sam Huston, and Sharon Musto. (Lots of fighters in the raffle, Andy!) With tickets at four for $1, Marla the Ticket Chick raised over $8000! After dinner, people either socialized, returned to classrooms to finish pro-jects, or did both. There were quite a few adult beverages alongside sewing machines.
On Saturday I took Deb Cooley’s all-day class, building her Trapadella (a trapezoidal dellaporta). She provided all the fabric and parts; all I had to do was trace one of the designs she’d brought, cut the fabric, and start stitching. The appliqué was easy, but after lunch I got a bit frustrated with sticks and bridles. Ultimately I finished it, and even added a 42’ fuzzy tail, using a new cutting technique that Poulter taught me. The trappadella is an easy kite that I’ll be building again – hmm, maybe a train of traps -- although there were some details I’ll modify. That’s what’s nice about these classes, they give you a starting point and you can make changes to suit yourself.
And how about those classes? Applique the Jose way. A his-toric winged box kite by Bob and Charmayne Umbowers. Kathy Goodwind’s blue bird of happiness parade kite. Tom McAlister build a diamond box. Randy Shannon’s Bermuda variant. Falk Hilsenberg came from Germany to teach a cotton-sailed, wood-framed, hemp-bridled Monobloc box. Painting on silk. Big barn doors. Japanese kites. Kinetic worms. In one weekend you could add three completely new kinds of kites to your bag.
I finished with Mock, making my painted sail into a bowed rectangular Ohashi kaku dako. It would have been incredibly simple if my sewing machine hadn’t fatally jammed halfway through. No worries, there’s no shortage of extra machines to borrow. And I fared better than Barbara Meyer, who stabbed herself with a screwdriver while removing her sail from its painting frame.
After lunch I skipped the wrap-up meeting and took my new toys out for some flying time. They all work! Expect to see some of them at Smithsonian, Ocean City, and Wildwood this spring. You can see Mike Carroll’s photos from the retreat at http://flickr.com/photos/druidlabs/sets/72057594075813120/, or the gallery at www.kitemakers.org, or just plan on going yourself on the last weekend of February in 2007. Like me, you’ll be hooked.
Treasure Island Kite Festival 2006by Don Pignolet and Mike Petty
This was our second year attending the Treasure Island Kite Festival. We continue to think of this festival as a really great chance to escape from the middle of winter (for a weekend, at least) and fly kites in a warm climate! The beach is huge, almost as big as Wildwood, and they let us drive our vehicles out on it for the festival.
We fly the big kites at the north end of the beach. The sport kites and events are at the south end. Along with us were Pat and Russ Mozier and their family, Gary and Maggie Engvall and Wayne Brooks and his friend Monty from Southern Cali-fornia.
Saturday was WINDY!! Gusts to 40 MPH meant no kites were flying. Indeed, the sand was blowing along the beach like snow and piled up into 3 foot drifts (dunes?). Some peo-ple got together and bridled and flew a Tyvek hazmat suit! It was Tyvek Tim and he was auctioned off later in the day for $5 after we all signed him!
Sunday started out clear and cool (for Florida). We got some big kites up, but the wind dropped and everything settled down on the beach. We all gathered at the camp we set up around our cars on the beach and waited. Determined to get some Florida sunshine, Maggie Engvall just sat in the sun in a beach chair. In an hour or so, the wind changed directions, blowing off the water and increased to 10-15 MPH. We relo-cated our anchors and finally got the sky show up. With good
wind, temperatures around 60 and bright sunshine, it was a lot of fun! And it made a really great display. Several hundred spectators showed up, enjoying the big kites. Then, almost like clockwork, the wind fell off at 4 PM, everything settled down, and we packed the kites away with very little effort. All in all, as close to a perfect day as you can get.
The wind was so great, I got a chance to walk down to the south end of the festival and watch what was the sig-nature event: the pink flamingo kite battle. They gave kids pink flamingo kites and instructions to fly them like a rok battle: the last one in the sky gets a prize. They took right to it, with one boy actually cutting down 4 others.
Monday arrived clear and much warmer. Since our flight wasn't until 5 PM, we put up the kites that didn't make it up on Sunday, including the lobster. But like all good things, it came to an end, we packed it up and made for the airport for a quiet flight home, back into the freezing cold! We're looking forward to it again next year.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006150 kite fliers arrested, sent to jail
* Bail not granted on Tuesday because of local holiday* Anti-kite flying ordinance doesn’t state age of violators to be arrested
By Ali Waqar
LAHORE: Following another crackdown on kite flying on Saturday night, Sunday and Monday, about 150 kite flyers including 60 juveniles were sent to District Camp Jail after police lodged First Information Reports (FIR) against them.
Officials told Daily Times on Tuesday that bail could not be granted to the violators of the kite flying ban because Tuesday was a local holiday and if the inmates’ relatives failed to get them bailed out on Wednesday (today), they (the inmates) would remain in jail on Thursday also because of the Yaum-e-Pakistan (March 23) holiday and would most probably be bailed out on Friday afternoon.
Officials also said the newly promulgated Punjab Prohibition of Kite Flying Ordinance 2006 did not define the age of the violators to be arrested and only said ‘whoever’ violated the ban should be arrested. That was why police did not refrain from arrest-ing children during the crackdown, they said.
Officials said that last week (during the main Basant festival) police arrested 381 kite flyers while 245 kite flyers were ar-rested a day after Basant (Monday). They said that in total 628 kite flyers including 71 juveniles were arrested and sent to Lahore District Jail by March 13. All violators except the 150 arrested on Saturday night, Sunday and Monday had already been released on the Punjab chief minister’s direc-tion, they added.
Officials said a majority of the 150 kite flyers arrested were in their twenties and belonged to middle and lower middle class families.
About juveniles being arrested, a jail official said they (the juveniles) had not only become criminals (as they had crimi-nal records now), but could also be affected by the juvenile delinquency amplification syndrome where a juvenile with no criminal background could become a criminal after com-ing out of jail. He also said the fear of being in jail would not be present in the juveniles once they got out.
Several jail officials and Non Official Visitors said lawyers had also been making extra money by bailing out the viola-tors. They said the lawyers charged 10 to 15 times more than the routine bail fee.
Officials said the juveniles had told them that they were not flying kites, but were running after kites. “I was sitting on the roof with my wife when police showed up and arrested me,” said a 25-year-old man. One official quoted several juveniles as saying that they had watched TV, which said the govern-ment had allowed kite flying, and when they started flying kites, police arrested them.
The Society for the Protection of the Rights of Children (SPARC), an NGO that also works for the rights of juveniles and prisoners, held the government responsible for the mess. It condemned the relaxation of the kite flying ban by the Su-preme Court and also the Punjab government’s violation of the Supreme Court’s orders.
Rafiq Khan, Punjab coordinator of SPARC, said that according to the ordinance “the nazim of the district concerned may, through a notifica-tion, issue with the prior approval of the Punjab government, allow kite flying and sale of kites for a period not exceeding 15 days dur-ing the spring season in a year”.
He asked why the Punjab govern-ment banned kite flying if the Su-preme Court had relaxed its or-
ders? He said there was no justification for banning kite fly-ing right before Basant. He also held the Punjab chief minis-ter, law minister and judiciary responsible for the contro-versy.
Drawbacks of the ordinance: Senior Punjab government offi-cials said there was no definition of the kite flyer and his/her age. However, they said the minimum criminal responsibility age according to Section 82 of the Pakistan Penal Code was seven years.
They said the ordinance was an amended version of the Or-dinance LIX of 2001 on Dangerous Kite Flying.
They said that according to the ordinance, kite flying was possible only with fine thread, as nobody was be allowed to fly kites with metallic wire, nylon cords or thread coated with iron filings, or manufacture or sell such injurious material for the purpose of kite flying.
They said the ordinance stated that the culprit should be li-able to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding Rs 40,000 or to both.
They also said no rules had been made or described to be made under the aforementioned ordinance. “There is no age specification and police can arrest anyone of any age on this subject. There is only mention of registering kite/thread trad-ers and sellers with the district government concerned and there are no other details or rules,” officials added.
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The Great 12th Anniversary Bash Room Raffle
This year SJKF is doing something different. We will be Raffling off 2 rooms at the Montego Bay Motel for our Anni-versary Bash. The only condition is the winner has to open his or her doors to the club on Sunday, October 15, 2006. The rooms will have access to the Motel Deck, this is where the Anniversary Bash will be held and we need ac-cess to the rooms to operate the Bash.
Tickets will be limited to first come, first serve with only 50 tickets being sold. The drawing for the winners will be held at our July meeting. Each winner will have a room for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. The cost of the tickets will be $10 and can be obtained from Mike Dallmer, 215-722-4092 or [email protected] luck, buy plenty of tickets.
ISLAMABAD: A kite string fatally slit a mo-torcyclist's throat in the latest of a series of tragedies that have prompted a kite-flying ban in an eastern Pakistan province.
Nauman Nazir, a 19-year-old student, was riding through a bazaar on Friday in the city of Rawalpindi near the capital, Islamabad, when he hit the kite string, said local police official Mohammed Khalid.
Kite flyers in Pakistan often use strings made of wire or coated with ground glass for "dueling," trying to cross and cut an opponent's string or damage the other kite, often after betting on the outcome.
After Nazir's accident passers-by immediately took him to a hospital, but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival due to blood loss, said Mohammed Ilyas who lives in the area.
Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, banned the manu-facture, sale and flying of kites days ago after sharp kite strings caused several deaths.
But the popular pastime has continued.
Kite strings have been blamed for the deaths of at least 10 people, two of them children, over the past three weeks in Punjab, an eastern province.
The ban came ahead of the annual spring kite-flying festival of Basant in the eastern city of Lahore last weekend. More than 1,400 people have been arrested for violating the ban.
SJKF needs your help at the West Deptford Library
SJKF will be a part of "World on a String" in the library! On Saturday, May 6th at 10 am we will be decorating the library with our kites. They will be up for 2 months and are totally insured. Have a kite you want displayed? Have extra time? Have good ladder skills? The more that show up the quicker we are done.
On June 10th we will be doing a children kite making work-shop. This is an event we did a few years ago and they would like us back. Of course, we always need help with the assem-bly of kites. Start time for this event is 10 am.
For more information about these events contact: Mike Dallmer, [email protected] 215-722-4092The library is located at 420 Crown Point Road, Thorofare, NJ 08086 Phone #856-845-5593
New 2nd Vice President
This is to inform you that at the March Meeting of SJKF Scott E Spenser officially resigned his post as 2nd Vice President of SJKF.Taking his place is none other that Hank Kleinot, a long time member of SJKF. This is Hank’s first offi-cial position on the Board. Hank can be reached at [email protected] Good Luck Hank and thanks for “Volunteering”…..
4/8/2006 (Saturday) Bucks County Free Library Kite Day Levittown Library on April 8. The Library is located at 7311 New Falls Road, Levittown (215-949-2324) Time is from 11-4 Stephen Rees is an on-site contact. Contact Mike Dallmer [email protected] or 215-722-4092 or Dawn Baum [email protected]
4/09/2006 (Sunday) Sakura Sunday Festivities and Kite Fly at the Philadelphia Japanese Tea House from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, at the Agricultural Center in Fairmont Park., Con-tact Sam Foertmeyer @ [email protected]
4/15/2006 (Saturday) Kites at the Whitaker http://www.whitakercenter.org/KiteFest/KiteFest.htm Con-
tact Todd Little [email protected] Of special interest is a call to artists for kite related art and a kite making competi-tion, in which the winners will be displayed in the center as part of a kite art exhibit. There will be many levels of artistry involved including Fiberglass Kite Sculptures, Free-form Indoor/Outdoor Kite Sculptures, Kites in the Classroom, and Lamppost Kites. The judged competition for kitemakers in Harrisburg on April 15, 2006.
4/14/06 (Friday) Good Friday Fly at Lewes 42 Cape Hen-lopen Drive, Lewes, DE 19958 (302-645-8983)
4/22/2006 (Saturday) 6th Annual Friends of Bensalem Central Park Kite Day for 2006 with rain date the 23rd. Byberry & Knights Roads, Bensalem, PA. A fun activity for the family. Time is Noon – 4 pm Contact Kris Vrooman [email protected]
4/22/06 (Saturday) Build a Kite on Earth Day kite fly with kids kitemaking. At Brandywine State Park in Wilmington, DE on April 22nd. Cost to build a kite is 2.00 Contact is Barbara Woodward 302-655-5740
4/22/06 (Saturday) Fly a Kite on Earth Day at Brandywine Creek State Park, Wilmington, DE Contact Barbara Wood-ford 302-655-5740 [email protected]
4/23/2006 (Sunday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, NJ. Contact Mike Dallmer [email protected] or 215-722-4092
4/29/2006 – 4/30/2006 12th Annual Maryland International Kite Exposition and Mid Atlantic Stunt Kite Championships (MASKC) Contact: the Kite Loft 410-289-7855 [email protected] or Sky Festivals 215-736-1850, or better yet [email protected]
4/30/06 Berks County Kite Day
5/20/2006 (Saturday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, at the Belmar Kite Fly. Contact Mike Dallmer [email protected] or 215-722-4092 Rain Date May 21, 2006
5/20/2005 – 5/21/2005 Spring Belmar Kite Fest Contact Ron Jakubowicz at 732-239-1485 (Cell) or [email protected]
5/26/2006 – 5/29/2006 21st ECSKC and WWIKF, Wildwood, NJ Contact Sky Festivals 215-736-1850, or better yet [email protected]
6/03/2006 (Saturday) Main Line Art Center Fly, Fly will be held at The Haverford School 450 Lancaster Avenue (Route 30) Haverford, PA 19041contact Mary Salvante [email protected] Kite Kits needed
6/10/2006 Saturday West Deptford Library Children’s Kite Making Workshop. Location: 420 Crown Point Road, Thoro-
fare, NJ 08086 Contact Diane Kelly at 856-845-5593 or [email protected] Kits needed
6/17/2006 (Saturday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, NJ. Contact Mike Dallmer for information [email protected] or 215-722-4092
Mid – June 2006 BASKC, 2004 Boston Area Sport Kite Championships (Boston, MA) Contact: Greg Lamoureux 781-925-3277 [email protected]
6/24/2006 – 6/25/2206 Old Dominion Sport Kite Champion-ship (ODSKC), Richmond, Va. For details, contact Marc Conklin at [email protected] or 804-763-1012.
7/4/2006 (Tuesday) Fourth of July kite fly in Ocean City New Jersey. All day at Ocean City High School with fire-works following.
7/22/2006 (Saturday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, NJ. Contact Mike Dallmer for information [email protected] or 215-722-4092
Late July New Jersey Sport Kite Championships: 2006 New Jersey Stunt Kite Championships (Jersey City, NJ)
8/20/2006 (Sunday) Third Annual "Flying at the Fort" at Fort Mott in Pennsville New Jersey from 8am to 5pm. Kite flying, meeting and monthly meeting.Contact Russ Mozier [email protected]
9/17/2006 (Sunday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, NJ. Contact Mike Dallmer [email protected] or 215-722-4092
10/15/2006 (Sunday) SJKF’s 12 Anniversary Bash, Date, noon at the Montego Bay Motel 1800 Boardwalk, North Wildwood, NJ 08260 (800) 962-1349 or (609) 523-1000 http://www.montegobaymotel.com/ Contact Mike Dallmer [email protected] or 215-722-4092
11/19/2006 (Sunday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, NJ Contact Mike Dallmer [email protected] or 215-722-4092
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Inside This Issue The Mother of All Rubber Ducks 1 What the Duck 2 Marie Katzenbach Kite Day 2 Presidential Ponderings 3 Fort Fun 4 Treasure Island Kite Festival 5 150 Kite Flyers Arrested 6 Anniversary Bash Raffle 7 Kiting Death 7 West Deptford Library 7 New Board Member 7 Coming Events 8
