Kite Festival September 13, 2008...Admission is FREE!

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Bay Area Sport Kite League Kite Festival at The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to benefit Childrens Hospice! We are proud to be able to bring Kite flying Fun and entertainment all day long for one of the best causes on the planet...The Children! Help us Support Childrens Hospice by enjoying the festivities and donating what you can. There will be representatives at the Children's Hospice tent to give you more information.

Entertainment will include

• Sport Kite demonstrations by some of the best Kite Fliers in the United States .
• Kite Making for Kids.
• See a large collection of Brian Champie's Giant Kites and Inflatables dominating the skies over the Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk. Brian started out as a sport kite flyer on champion teams such as Avispados and proceeded to become a master kitemaker and a collector of giant kites and inflatables. He's sure to entertain you!
• Bryan Blattel from Dublin, Ca. has been enjoying the fun of kite flying for 10 years. He has traveled throughout the U.S. entertaining people with his large collect of Kites and inflatables. The latest addition to his collection is a 50-foot long caterpillar. Look for it slithering across the beach in Santa Cruz!
• Bol Racing Contestants are tied to giant Bols and on the count of three Race upwind to the finish line. This is not as easy as it sounds but lots of fun! Prizes may be given by Sponsor.
• AND MORE!

Berkeley Kite Wranglers Giant Show Kite Team and their Trademark "Octopile"

Formed at the turn of the Millennium, the Berkeley Kite Wranglers have become the premier giant creature-kite team on the planet. The Wrangler collection contains nearly 30,000 square feet of giant creature kites and is the largest of its kind on earth. Giant kites in the Wrangler stable include cats, bears, geckos, manta rays, tropical fish, lobsters, frogs, a prehistoric trilobite and much more. "I don't know why," said Wrangler John Khan, but "I have always had a strange affinity for frogs. They are not the biggest kites in our collec-tion but I have always liked them." The giant octopi kites also seem to hold a special fascination for the team and awestruck festival crowds. At the 2006 Berkeley Kite Festival the Wranglers set a world record for the largest number of giant Peter Lynn Octopi ever flown anywhere. Though their record now stands at ten giant octopi kites, they plan to break it in 2007. Each giant octopus kite is 20-feet wide and nearly 100 feet long. The pod, or "Octopile" as the team likes to call it, flies in perfect formation as if it knew it were part of the team. With all those tentacles floating rhythmically in the air, the Octopile seems to take on a life of its own. "One or two giant Octopi kites are a sight to see," Wrangler member Tom McAlister, "but when the Berkeley Kite Wranglers fly their Octopile of nine, ten or even more it becomes a wondrously vibrant spectacle you have to see to believe. And once you see it, you will never forget it."

 

In a perfect world the words "children" and "hospice" should never go together. The reality is that they sometimes do, and when they do, Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition is there to make sure the children and their families get the care they need.

 

Your generous support of the Bay Area Sport Kite Leagues 2^nd Annual Kite Festival at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk will help us achieve our goal of providing compassionate care for families of children with life threatening conditions. It is because of big hearted members of our community like you that we have been able to set up a program that is the first of its kind,a new model of coordinated care that integrates community-based care with the children's hospital.

 

Each day, our office in Watsonville bustles with the efforts of our bilingual Nurse Care Coordinators, volunteers, drivers and committed partners. This dedicated team works tirelessly to bring family-centered coordinated care to children with life-threatening conditions on the Central Coast. The intimacy of the relationships created with the children and their families is extraordinary. Families rely on our nurses to be liaisons for them within the medical community, advocating for the best care for their child, and helping them navigate complex treatment schedules, translation issues, and emotional needs. Our drivers provide transportation services for families, making certain that seriously ill children with compromised immune systems need never take a bus to Palo Alto or San Francisco for treatment.

 

Our dedication to our local families is multiplied through Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition's groundbreaking programs and services. We are so very proud that, because of our local efforts, the Nick Snow Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Act was signed into law and through this effort, we have dramatically improved care for nearly 18,000 children in California. We continue to develop and deliver programs and policies that empower parents and enable children with life-threatening conditions to receive care that embraces their physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs. Due to its success in meeting the needs of families, our local Partnership for Children is now being used as a model of care in California for this new statewide pediatric hospice and palliative care benefit.

 

We are humbled by the mission that has been entrusted to us to ensure that seriously ill children and their families in our local community and throughout California receive quality, compassionate medical care. We are here to help these families hold on to hope, whatever form that hope may take, hope for a cure, time with family and friends, graduation, or, when a cure is not possible, hope for a loving and peaceful death.

 

Children's Hospice was recently honored by the California Association of Nonprofits as the recipient of the 2007 Achievement in Innovation Award; the Partnership for Children's nurse care coordinators, Sophia Schultz and Shoshana Spielman, received the Hospice Foundation's Kendall Inspiration Award; and as co-founders, we were honored to have been named 2007 Women of the Year by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce.

 

By supporting this event and Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition, you are helping to change the standard of care for seriously ill children and their families in our community and beyond our borders. With your sponsorship, you help ensure that these children continue to receive the support they deserve. To learn more about our meaningful work, please feel free to contact us or visit our web-site at www.childrensospice.org

 

We are so grateful to the Bay Area Sport Kite League, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and our generous sponsors for their support and we deeply appreciate your consideration. There is so much more to do and with your help, we can do it! Thank you.

 

On behalf of the children and their families,

 

 

 

 

Melissa Gilbert_____________ Lori Butterworth____________ Devon Dabbs

President of the Board______ Co-Executive Director_______ Co-Executive Director

 

Children's Hospice & Palliative Care Coalition is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization, and as such your donation is tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Please consult your tax advisor for further information regarding your individual situation.

 

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Japanese Rokkaku & Art Kite Mass Ascension/Arnold Stellema, Nathan Sendan(Organizers)

A Rokkaku is a 6-sided (or 6-cornered) kite. Art kites are any type of kite that could be displayed on your wall as well as fly! We will try to get as many as we can in the sky and the top 3 Rokkakus and top 3 art kites owners will recieve a prize!

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

September 13, 2008

Various Times All Day	Kite Demos Dual,Quad and Buggys
10:00am	Opening Ceremony The Bay Area Sundowners Sponsored by: Northern Cal. Kite Club
11:00am	Bol Races Public invited to compete. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
12:00pm	Watsonville Taiko Drummers
12:30pm till supplies last!	Kid's Kite Making Free!
1:00pm	Bol Races Public invited to compete. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
1:30pm	Kite Pulldown Game Public invited to compete. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Monterey Bay Aquarium
2:00pm	Kite Mass Ascention Public invited to fly
2:30pm	Bol Races Public invited to compete. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
3:00pm	Rokkaku/Art Kite Mass Ascension Public invited to fly. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Monterey Bay Aquarium
3:30pm	Kite Pulldown Game Public invited to compete. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Monterey Bay Aquarium
4:00pm	Kite Mass Ascention Public invited to fly
5:00am	Bol Races Public invited to compete. Prize awarded Winners Sponsored by: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
6:00pm	Closing Ceremony MegaFly Sponsored by: Northern Cal. Kite Club

Team Flying

Various 2, 3 and 4 man Teams will show their skills in intricate as well as beautiful choreographed to music flight routines:

AirZone Flight team

From the Bay area, the team includes Aaron Champie, Wayne Fu, Ulysses Villanueva, Darrin Skinner, Francisco Navarro and John Gillespie. The team has competed in The World Sport Kite Championships in France.

Team "Too Much Fun"

This southern California team consists of Mark & Jeanette Lummas(originally from England) and Ron Despojado. The team was formed in January 2001 to represent the USA in Malaysia for the World Sport Kite Championships.They perform with both dual and quad line kites and have been lucky enough to team up with some of the best kite manufacturers in the World.

Penny Lingenfelter,Ron Despojado

If there were such a position as, Kite Ambassador to the World, our nominee would be Penny Lingenfelter. Penny, from Port Orchard, Washington, comes to festivals prepared to entertain, not only with her expert flying skills, but also with her costumed, choreographed routines. Penny has been a pirate, a clown, and even a dinosaur emerging from an egg.

Ron Despojado is a five time quadline ballet champion from La Jolla, California. He has flown as an individual and team member of Team Too Much Fun. Ron has been invited to entertain people from all around the globe, from France to Japan. He's been flying for 19 years and it shows. We are happy to have Ron entertain at this festival.