Number 69 The newsletter of the South Jersey Kite Flyers Volume #4 2007

WHAT Would Turn Green with Envy orIs There a Duckmaster in the Club? By Sue Ciotti

This just in from Memphis -

In the heart of “Blues City,” you'll find The Peabody Memphis, a magnificent AAA 4-Diamond hotel. This historic icon opened its doors in 1925 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and continues to carry the distinction as the "South's Grand Hotel."

The Peabody itself is also one of Memphis' most popu-lar attractions. The tradition of the famous Peabody Marching Ducks began in 1932. Peabody General Manager Frank Schutt, an avid sportsman, and a friend Chip Barwick, returned empty-handed from a weekend hunting trip in Arkansas. The two friends had a bit too much Tennes-see sippin' whiskey, and decided to play a prank and put their live duck decoys (which were legal at the time) in the fountain in the hotel's Grand Lobby. Three English call ducks were placed in the fountain, and the reaction from hotel guests was nothing short of enthusias-tic. Soon, five North American Mallard ducks would replace the original ducks.

In 1940, Bellman Edward Pembroke, a former circus animal trainer, offered to help with delivering the ducks to the fountain each day and taught them the famous Peabody Duck March. Mr. Pembroke be-came the Peabody Duck-master, serving in that capacity until his retire-ment in 1991. The late Mr. Pembroke's portrait hangs in the entrance to The Pe-abody, a luxury suite is named for him and a building in Peabody Place development is named Pembroke Square .

In 2003, The Peabody Memphis conducted an exten-sive search for a new Duckmaster, garnering the at-tention of national media outlets such as CNN, the CBS Early Morning Show, and The Wall Street Journal. The Duckmaster is solely respon-sible for the care and well-being of the Peabody Ducks, includ-ing feeding, exercise, and training the teams for their daily march.

Today, the ducks are housed in the "Duck Palace" on the hotel roof. Every day at 11 a.m., they are led by the Duckmaster down the eleva-tor to the Italian travertine marble fountain in the Pea-body Grand Lobby. A red carpet is unrolled and the ducks march through crowds of admiring spectators to the tune of John Philip Sousa's King Cotton March. The ceremony is reversed at 5 p.m., when the ducks retire

for the evening to their pal-ace on the roof of the hotel.

The Peabody's famed am-bassadors are five Mallard ducks – one drake with his white collar and green head, and four hens with less colorful plumage. The ducks are raised by a local farmer and a friend of the hotel. Each team lives in the hotel for only three months before being retired from their Peabody duties and returned to the farm to live out the remainder of their days as wild ducks.

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Presidential Ponderings and Bear DroppingBy Mike Dallmer

Hello Kite Flyers, are you hot enough! Right now we are getting over our first heat wave of the Summer of 07 and it has been a little rough. Please be careful out-side, wear sunscreen, a hat, and sunglasses. Remember to drink plenty of fluids dur-ing these hot spells. Heat exhaustion can be life threatening and its effects can be long lasting!

I know everyone is busy during this time of the year but at the June meeting we were one member short of having a quorum. We had to change the gathering to a Board of Directors meeting. Our By-laws state that we need 10% of our membership at a meeting to make it official, we stand at 115 members, therefore we needed 12 members present. There was some im-portant work to be done and as President, I do not like authorizing expenditures at a Board Meeting, so a few things had to be postponed. Why not think about at-tending a meeting and help form the policies of SJKF. Those of you that attend regularly, I thank you.

I received very sad news a few days ago. Jim Bossong passed away. (see next article) I just want to say that not everyone would step up for some of the hard jobs that Jim took on. He kept us on the straight and narrow, Jim has had a great influence on the club and how it worked. Contribu-tions may be made in Jim’s name to the Cathedral Kitchen, 642 Market Street, Camden, NJ 08102.

So, did everyone who attended Wildwood have a good time? How about the Friday Night Social? I have heard nothing but rave reviews from those that were there. I’d like to thank everyone who was involved in this, from planning, cooking, set-up and clean-up. Without your generous support this event couldn’t happen. For those of you who don’t know, SJKF re-ceived fabulous thank you letters from Roger Chewn-ing and Beatrix Pelton for the work that SJKF per-formed in making Wildwood , especially the Social, a

great success. Thanks again for all your hard work and support of the club. There are plans al-ready working for next year, there may be a few slight changes (will the Oceanic still be there), maybe increase the cost slightly to help SJKF bring a kite flyer in for the event.

It’s that time of year again to start thinking about SJKF Elections. Each year a Presi-dent and 2 Directors at Large are elected. Want to run? All you have to do is be nominated (volunteer), you can do this or have someone else do it for you.

Just talk to someone on the Election Nomination Commit-tee or let me know. Nominations close at our Anniversary Bash.

Speaking of the Bash, it will be held this year at the same lo-cation as last year,

the Montego Bay Hotel and Spa in Wildwood. (see article) Mark you calendars for October 14 and plan on attending.

Who are Ehecatl and Anitun Tabu from the last news-letter, they are gods of wind, Ehecatl is from Aztec mythology and Anitun Tabu is the Tagalog goddess of the wind and rain

Good WindsUp With Kites, Down With Bears

(But only with a chute)

With all my ducks in a row!!!

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An Empty Space in the Sky, Jim Bossongby Mike Dallmer

It is with heavy heart that I report that Jim Bossong, age 83, a South Jersey Kite Fly-ers member since March 12, 1995 passed away yesterday, July 8, 2007 in the hospital. Jim is survived by his wife Dot, 2 children, 5 grandkids and 2 great grand kids. Jim and Dot were major sup-porters of SJKF and helped whenever they could, thank you.

Jim liked flying sport kites mostly but gave all types of kites a try. Jim was very instrumental in making sure

that SJKF Meeting were held to Robert’s Rule of Order, took care of contacting the press for us and cre-ated a budget for SJKF the past 6 years. Jim even tried

his hand at sewing at SJKF sponsored workshops. Jim also hosted or helped out with many Children’s Kite Making Workshops. Jim also was the man to go to when it was time to form an Election Committee for SJKF.Jim’s interests outside of kiting were managing com-puter systems for RCA in Cherry Hill before going into business for himself. He was an active member of St. Bridget's Church in Glassboro, where he was a Eucharistic minister and lector. He was a Toastmas-ter and a member of the Cherry Hill Racquetball Club. He was an avid Eagles fan and enjoyed bridge.

Jim will be greatly missed as he was one of those forces behind the scenes that made SJKF what it is now.

A Happy AccidentBy Sue Ciotti

Last week I was hurrying to make my way from the train to Terminal C in Newark Airport to catch a plane to Memphis for a business trip. But I was compelled to stop, put down my bags and pull out my camera from my backpack and take this photograph. There at the top of the escalator was this large 4 x 4 framed picture of our beloved Ben with the famous caption “Go Fly a Kite."

The billboard was installed by The Foundation for a Better Life and promotes Ingenuity and asks readers to “Pass It On.” I was intrigued by this organization, it’s positive thought-provoking message and decided to go to their website and see what they were all about. The Foundation for a Better Life is a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the values that make a difference in our communities. They create public service campaigns that model the benefits of a life lived by positive values. In turn, they hope to in-spire people to make values a part of their own lives, and then to communicate the benefits to others.

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The website is interactive and invites visitors to the site to share stories about values making a difference in their lives. You can read, listen to, watch and com-ment on inspirational stories that have been submit-ted by people around the world. You can click on “Heroes” and read stories written by visitors to the site about people doing extraordinary things every day – sharing their time, resources, or love, showing incredible strength and courage, and inspiring us by their example.

The billboards are a way to help people be inspired by the actions of others and to take action themselves. The website shows all of the billboards and the stories behind them. You can see where they are being dis-played, comment on them, and also send your ideas for a future billboard.

The Foundation’s public service an-nouncements are on over 800 TV stations in more than 200 countries around the world. They’re also shown in 8,000 US movie thea-ters and can also be watched on the web-site, inspiring viewers to “pass it on.” You can also send an e-card, search their quo-tation database by author, value or specific word -- or submit your favorite quote!

So, here’s my suggestion…. bookmark forbetterlife.org and when life gets you down and you’re having a bad day (or even when you’re not) go to the site, BE INSPIRED, and PASS IT ON! And don’t forget to Go Fly a Kite!

Retiring a kite?By Mike Dallmer

When is it time to retire a kite? I found out the hard way at Wildwood. My red, white and blue full sized Double Parasled refused to fly on the last day of the event. Why? Too much tape holding it together, too much exposure to the sun’s harmful rays, too many times getting hooked on stuff, poor sewing or just old age?

This kite has been our back bone lifter for many years. My best guess is that it made its first ap-pearance sometime in 1996. Probably about a year after the plans were published in KiteLines and re-ceiving the fabric from Cel for Christmas in ‘95. From that day forward the kite was in the air almost every time we flew. The kite went through 3 storage bags and about 20 extra rods. The last 4 years one of the main rods that support the tube was broken and re-

placement of the rod was put on the to do list, it never got done. The elastic that held the rods in place gave up their elasticity a long time ago.

Early in 2006, I ordered rods and fabric to replace this kite but then What the Duck came along so I thought, what the heck, we can still fly it. And fly it we did, for a whole year while I was just waiting for something to happen. Lucky for us, it just refused to fly anymore. We are thinking about some kind of proper pyrotech-nic end for this kite. It was good to us so we should be good to it.

So what did happen? I think it was a combina-tion of all the things that I listed above, the main reason being too many flying hours and all the wear and tear that goes along with it.

Don’t worry though, a new version, still in red, white and blue, with shooting stars and a little extra is waiting to be test flown, check it out when you see us.

OABTIIOPBCKFABO 2007by Mike Dallmer

The Olan and Bernice Turner International Invita-tional Open Peanut Butter Cookie Kite Fly and Bake Off, will be held on the Boardwalk in Seaside Park, NJ on 10/28/07. This event is always a fun event and all

are invited, even if you don’t make anything. If you want to enter a kite or baked good they must be home-made and have something to do with peanuts or peanut butter!! Refreshments will be provided in the form of Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocola and Milk

Judging is fair and impartial but remember bribes are accepted and appreciated! Prizes, you want prizes, of course there will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for both baked good and kite entries.Contact Cel dallmers@comcast.net and Mike Dallmer mikedallmer@comcast.net or 215-722-409

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2007 SJKF Birthday Bash Raffle Ticketsby Scott E. Spencer

Thirty tickets of the fifty-seven available were sold @ $10.00 each. That covers, close to half the cost, the club paid for the two rooms. So we did very well. Six were sold just before the drawing. Top buyers were Vi-6, Andy-4, Mike and Don-5, Dallmers-5. The win-ning two tickets were drawn by, the might be future, Tracey Dallmer. Andy Selzer purchased both. Andy drew a third ticket to break the tie and Don Pignolet purchased that one. Scott S printed the tickets. Thank you, me. Thank you, to everyone who purchased tickets. Thank you, to Andy-Vi and Don-Mike for sharing your rooms on Sunday for the Bash.

SJKF’s 13th Anniversary Bashby Mike Dallmer

Date: Party; meeting, BBQ, Auction to be Sun-day, October the 14th. Location: Montego Bay Motel 1800 BoardwalkNorth Wildwood, NJ 08260(800) 962-1349 or (609) 523-1000http://www.montegobaymotel.com/

Time: Meeting, BBQ and Auction start at High Noon.

Food: Plans call SJKF to provide the main entrees with members supplying whatever their specialty is! Doesn’t the picture at the right look delicious, that is why we are known as the club that eats well. Give Ce-cilia a call to make this happen again!!!! Without your help, where would we be?

We are looking for food do-nations; Cecilia Dallmer is the Hostess and organizer for this, please contact her at dallmers@comcast.net 215-722-4092 as she is our food chairperson and in charge of Hospitality. Cecilia will have to go shopping to complete the list so please try to let her know what you bringing by October 11h. Anyone with special needs please inform us ahead of time so we can try to accommodate you.

Auction: As this is our main fundraiser we are look-ing for contributions of anything related to kites or kiting. Also, don’t forget the most important thing, BRING MONEY, as without your support this event won’t happen. We also have a large collection of Kite Stuff that Dianna Strauss donated to SJKF including a Buggy and a few very collectable kites, thanks Di-anna!!

International Kite Festival at Jacob Riss Parkby Charles StewartHigh Spirits of 14B

Saturday June 30th saw the first International kite fes-tival at Jacob Riss Park. This park is in  Rockaway, NY. The festival is sponsored by Sing Tao Daily, a Chinatown newspa-per. It's a effort to bring a mixture of kite cultures together. The weather was great and the wind was adequate.

Two, one hundred and fifty foot Centipede Dragon kites were flown. There was the usual assortment of big flowforms and line laundry as well. Most of it flown by Mike Nevins and Ron Jakubowicz. Kaziah Hall had a few of his colorful creations in the air. Charles Stewart was assisted in flying

a Eddy kite train by the contestants (16) in the Miss Chinatown beauty pageant.

Many pictures were taken of the girls,flying the kite train. The crowd was treated to stunt kite demo's by Skywalkers, Air Therapy, Steve K, Kurtis Jones, and Dennis Smith. Dennis also did his usual great job on sound. Bill and Barbara Coons came down from NYKE country.

The Newspaper ran a kite making workshop and gave away over one hundred and fifty kites. The Bol races were enjoyed by parents and kids alike. There were free raffles for two Airline tickets to anywhere in the USA, as well as  free raffles for kites. The paper hopes to make this festival an annual event. 

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1st Brigantine Fighter Kite Festivalby Andrew Selzer

The week of June 25 through June 27, 2007 saw ten fighter kite enthusiasts from across the country gather on the beach at Brigantine, New Jersey to test their skills flying their fighters. In attendance from South Jersey Kite Flyers were John Rose, Lisa Willoughby, Jim Davis, Rick Mingeram and myself. From KONE were Manny & Jeremiah Alves and Robert “Woody” Woods. And coming all the way from Michigan was Terry McPherson.

After some light rain Monday morning things got started around 11:00 am with a Buka contest. Using a round robin format all flyers flew 5 points against each other. With a steady southeast breeze coming in off the water at 12mph the flyers got to use their rectangular Bukas to their full extent. In the end Woody bested us all with a score of 20 points and I took 2nd with 19. Rick Min-geram came in third with a score of 12 points.

In the afternoon with the sun now shin-ing through the remaining clouds we set-up the skills contest. Using two 20’ banner poles and some orange ribbon tape we made up what looks like a set of goal post at a football game. The object here is to come down between the poles and touch the tape and go back up. All without crashing or getting entangled with the poles. You received 5 points for completing this task. Next was a set of two concentric circles with the inner one being worth ten points and the outer five points. Off to the side of that was a set of 4 cups set up on 5’ high flexible poles. Each cup was worth 5 points if you could knock it off. With a total time of 3 minutes and 2 total crashes before disqualification contestants set out to see how many points they could score. Most of us completed the goal post skill and got our 5 points. Several tried the circles and only one landed within the outer ring. At the cups Woody got three and wound up with a winning total of 20 points. There was a three way tie for second and third place with 15 points. It was decided to have a shootout with the fastest time to land in the circles. Rick Mingeram did it on his first try in 4.8 seconds and thereby took 2nd place. Terry McPherson and my brother Mark took a

second turn, and Terry hit the bulls-eye in 4.6 seconds giving him third place.

Tuesday morning was the line touch contest begin-ning. With bright sunny sky and winds around 8 mph and building to about 12 mph everyone prepared for the fun of the day. Using the new open format in

which everyone has their own scorecard the contestants started their five point battles with each other. Using this format everyone has the option of using a judge and the tone generator if they choose. If not then it goes back to a regular everyday flying of points between two contestants where you rely on each other’s sportsmanship to make a fair game. Everyone be-lieve it or not choose to not use a judge and it led to a more relaxed and fun atmosphere for the whole event. Many great matches were had as I could tell by the smiles on

everyone’s faces. Though bested by Woody in our match I did manage to sneak in a tight bottom point. In my match with Manny Alves from Rhode Island we got into some hotly contested bottom and top points that left us both wanting to do more. After a full day of matches Mr. Woods was again the winner with 36 points and I was second with 32. Manny Alves finished

third with 28 points.

Wednesday was a day for giving free fighter kite lessons to the public and everyone enjoyed the beach and the fine onshore breezes. Mike Petty and Don Pigonlet came to the beach to lend some color and put on a great display of large single line infalatible kites. Some nice look-ing hatas were put up by Jim Davis and Lisa Willoughby.

There was great press and televi-sion coverage of the event arranged by the Brigantine Department of Community Education & Recreation (CER) and its director Mr. Jim Mogan. There were two articles in the Atlantic City Press and a spot on the NBC Channel 40 shore affiliate station 6 o’clock news.

At this time I’d like to thank everyone who helped make this event a success. The City of Brigantine and its Dept. of CER and its staff for all their support. To all the kite flyers who participated in the event and helped make it happen. And a special thank you to all those who helped set-up and take down the field.Also the AKA for sponsoring the event.

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Schedule of Kite Events, SJKF 7-12-2007

8/10/2007 – 8/12/2007 Boston Area Sport Kite Champi-onship Greg Lamoureux 781-925-3277 info@seasidekites.com

8/19/2006 (Sunday) Fourth Annual "Flying at the Fort" at Fort Mott New Jersey from 8 to 5pm. Kite fly-ing,monthly meeting. 9/8/2007 – 9/9/2007 Rockaway Kite Festival Sky Festi-vals bfpelton@yahoo.com or 732 822 4884

9/15/2007 Deadline for WindWriters. Dave Ciotti BinaryBear@Mac.Com   100 Sixth Ave., Hamilton, NJ 08619

9/16/2007 (Sunday) SJKF Meeting, 1pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, Mike Dallmer mikedallmer@comcast.net or 215-722-4092

9/20/2007 – 9/23/2007 Sunfest in Ocean City, MD con-tact the Kite Loft at 410-289-7855 or jay@kiteloft.com

9/23/07 NASCAR race at Dover

9/29/2007 Day of Kiting, at Pennington Park on Creek Road in Delanco, NJ from 11am-3pm. With beautiul 140-acre Pennington Park on Rancocas Creek as the setting, Ernestine Booker at 609-265-5068 ebooker@co.burlington.nj.us

9/27/07 – 9/30/07 Niagara International Kite Festival activities will be at Reservoir State Park in Lewiston. Contact Meg Albers E-mail: meg@kitehistory.co

10/1/2007 – 10/6/2007 The 2007 AKA National Conven-tion will be held in Ocean Shores, WA

10/6/2007 – 10/7/2007 Holmdel, NJ, PNC Arts Center Sky Festivals bfpelton@yahoo.com or 732 822 4884

10/14/2007 SJKF’s 13th Anniversary Bash at the Mon-tego Bay, same place as 2006

10/28/2007 The Olan and Bernice Turner International Invitational Open Peanut Butter Cookie Kite Fly and Bake Off, Seaside Park, NJ. Contact Cel dallmers@comcast.net or Mike Dallmer mdallmer@arserrc.gov or 215-722-4092

11/3/07 (Saturday) Evesham / Marlton Kite Fly, Marl-ton, NJ. Location: the field behind the Rec Center in time is 11 to 3 pm Debbie Rumbos rumbosd@evesham-nj.gov or Mike Dallmer mikedallmer@comcast.net or 215-722-409211/15/2007 Deadline WindWriters. Send to Dave Ciotti BinaryBear@Mac.Com   100 Sixth Ave., Hamilton, NJ 08619

11/18/2007 (Sunday) SJKF Meeting, 1 pm, Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill, NJ Contact Mike Dallmer for more information mikedallmer@comcast.net or 215-722-4092

12/9/2007 SJKF’s 11th Holiday Party from 1pm to 5pm at the Ventura

Visit www.easternleague.net for more information on Eastern League Events

President’s Note: Though these dates are accurate at time of printing it is best to check with the contact to make sure the proper dates are listed.

Got an event that you want listed, send it: Mike Dallmer, 7204 Oakley St., and Phila. Pa 19111mikedallmer@comcast.net

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Thought you guys might like to see this...

From: Roger Chewning [mailto:roger.chewning@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:54 AMTo: Dallmer, MichaelSubject: Re: Wildwood Friday Night Social

Mike Please express the gratitude of Beatrix and I for the Friday night welcome party.  I wish that things were not so hectic that we could take more time at social functions like this.   Who knows what next year will bring us, but we look forward to working with you and SJKF in 2008. Thanks again,Roger (and Beatrix)

Why does SJKF make donations to the World Kite Museum?by Scott E. Spencer

Pete Dolphin, Scott E. Skinner, Andy & Vi, Carmela P, myself (another SES) and the late Betty big H are the only SJKF members to have visited their quaint beach bungalow. So there must be a reason. I think we do-nate out of respect for what they do. WKM started with a dream by Kay Buesing of a Kite Museum dedi-cated to collecting, documenting, researching and displaying. kites. That's right folks an internationally recognized kite museum right here in the US of A!!

WKM has done great work over the years. The Oral History Program has provided documentation of kiter’s histories and now contributes an article for each Kiting issue called Voices from the Vault. WKM hosts many kite-making workshops throughout the year by prominent kite-makers. WKM hosts many ac-tivities for local kids throughout the year. I'm sure they have other projects but I just wanted to give you a taste of the great work they do for documenting, and promoting kiting.

WKM also has been reciprocal in donations. They regularly send items for our monthly meeting raffle.

In the last few years tWKM moved from their little bungalow to a grand building indicative of their status. It took many years to make it happen. I feel that even though our contribution may be small in com-parison to many others it takes a lot of small straws to break the camels back. Maybe we (SJKF) are the one and we can claim we made it happen.

Personal note: Betty and I attended only one Washing-ton State International Kite Festival and stopped by the museum. As we walked into their bungalow mu-seum, Kay was standing by the displays at the door, saw us and yelled "South Jersey is IN THE HOUSE"! What a compliment. A grand thank you goes out to all SJKF members for thinking outside of our regional area.

We also support the Drachen Foundation on a yearly basis and they reciprocate too.But that will be another story to tell.

We Sure Could Have Used This Wind in WildwoodBy Don Pignolet Mike and I had the opportunity to go to Brigantine on June 27th, the last day of Andy Selzer’s fighter kite event. We went to take advantage of a day to fly kites and a free beach opportunity during the summer sea-son. Andy’s event was at the south end of the beach at 38th St., with roped off fields, and we went up to the north side of the beach entrance to a very nice large beach. We hauled our kites out to the beach and set up a row of banners. Thinking how nice the wind seemed, we started putting up inflatables. The wind was perfect, a few degrees off of parallel to the beach, slightly off the ocean and about 10 MPH. The kites practically launched themselves, and then stayed tacked to the sky. First one stack, then a second. And we put 3 of the bols in between. The wind stayed perfect all day, never changing di-rection, even slightly. Stacks of kites could have been put up close together without ever tangling. We just kept adding more kites to the 2 stacks, until the bags were empty. As the afternoon wore on, it picked up to about 15-18 MPH, but never changed direction at all. The kites were "glued to the blue," as Bazzer would say! By the time we were ready to bring them in, we real-ized just how much was up. It took almost an hour and a half to pack up. And while it was 95 in the city, it was low 80’s on the beach. All in all, as close to perfect winds as possible. We sure could have used that wind in Wildwood!

See pictures below.

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S J K F M E M B E R S H I P A P P L I C AT I O NHelp us get to know you! Fill in the form below. Return this application along with your check (payable to SJKF) for $15/year (single) or $20/year (family), and you’re in! Welcome to the club!Name ______________________________________________________Address:____________________________________________________City: ___________________________ST:__________ZIP:____________Phone(H):____________________(W)____________________________E-Mail Address:______________________________________________Membership Type: Individual ($15)________Family ($20)___________(For family memberships, list additional names below. Circle name if under 10 years old)________________________________________________________________________________________________________Favorite Kite:___________________________________ Signature:_____________________________ Date:____________

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WindWritersIs the newsletter of the South Jersey Kite Flyers and is published bimonthly by the SJKF

President Mike Dallmer, Sr mikedallmer@comcast.net (215) 722-40921st Vice President Sue Ciotti babygrandsue@mac.com (609) 587-83342nd Vice President Andy Selzer fightakite@comcast.net (856) 728-8870Secretary Sam Foertmeyer samfilmdr@yahoo.com (215) 465-4702Treasurer Dave Ciotti binarybear@mac.com (609) 587-8334Director at Large Cel Dallmer dallmers@comcast.net (215) 722-4092Director at Large Tom Morse morselicious@hotmail.com (732) 830-1935Web Master Tom Morse morselicious@hotmail.com (732) 830-1935Publisher Sue Ciotti babygrandsue@mac.com (609) 587-8334Merchandise Don Pignolet & Mike Petty buzzlink1328@aol.com (215) 465-4702Editor Dave Ciotti binarybear@mac.com (609) 587-8334Hospitality Cel Dallmer dallmers@comcast.net (215) 722-4092Membership Sam Foertmeyer samfilmdr@yahoo.com (215) 465-4702

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Inside This Issue Duck Envy 1 Presidential Ponderings 2 Empty Space in the Sky 3 Happy Accident 3 Retiring a Kite 4 OABTIIOPBCKFABO 4 BASH 5 Jacob Riss Park 5 Brigantine 6 Coming Events 7 Thank You and WKM 8 We Sure Could Have Used This Wind 8